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Historian Highlight: Benjamin Farrington (1891-1974)
by Sam Phoenix Clarke, @samjphoenix ‘Recent advances in physics hold out the prospect that human civilisation may be destroyed. Recent advances in history, revealing to us with a startlingly clearer insight what the nature of civilisation is, might, if they were more widely understood, give us the little bit of extra wisdom which would induce…
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The Methodology of Feyerabend’s ‘Against Method’
by Bipasha Bhattacharyya, @Bipasha05235299 “Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise”[i] begins Feyerabend’s controversial book; And with it, the author becomes “science’s worst enemy.”[ii] This epithet is not all that surprising for the ‘serious academic’. After all, anarchy means Guy Fawkes’s masks, and burning effigies, cheers of Inquilab Zindabad on the streets of West Bengal…
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