Sublime

Hume’s pluralist, sentimentalist, and naturalist approach to ethics is more promising than utilitarianism or deontology for modern moral psychology. As a first step in resuming Hume’s project, we should try to identify the taste receptors of the righteous mind.

The ancient law giver was a benevolent myth; the modern law giver is a terrifying reality. The world has become more like that of Machiavelli than it was, and the modern man who hopes to refute his philosophy must think more deeply than seemed necessary in the nineteenth century.

The part played by deduction in science is greater than Bacon supposed. Often, when a hypothesis has to be tested, there is a long deductive journey from the hypothesis to some consequence that can be tested by observation. Usually the deduction is mathematical, and in this respect Bacon underestimated the importance of mathematics in scientific in

Les biologistes pensaient et agissaient comme si les molécules étaient des éléments matériels séparés, uniquement reliés par le biais d'attractions et de répulsions électromagnétiques ; aucun d'entre eux, il en était convaincu, n'avait entendu parler du paradoxe EPR, des expériences d'Aspect ; aucun n'avait même pris la peine de s'informer des prog