Allow me to quote Nietzsche (although I know that will be considered by some to be in bad taste): "As the circle of science grows larger, it touches paradox at more places".
Now here's a harder trick: try to imagine the career in between, in which Thomas McMahon tap-danced back and forth from the most respected circles of serious science to those of serious culture.
These developments arise from "virtuous circles" of technology to science to technology that depend upon the physical sciences and mathematics, health sciences, and engineering.
In Philosophy of Science circles this bolstering of a view via overlapping circles of self-consistent reasoning and data is referred to as 'coherence'coherence
We added a paragraph on the more philosophical reasoning behind our approach, which takes the idea that a self-consistent narrative is more persuasive intellectually than one lacking elements of join-up, a principle known in Philosophy of Science circles as 'coherence'coherence
Berkeley is a wonderful place for fostering playful relationships with mathematics, with programs like the Berkeley Math Circle and the Lawrence Hall of Science and a thriving community of puzzle enthusiasts".
For more than 100 years, the philosophy of science circled around either the assumptions or the (untoward) consequences of Kant's solution.
This month the topic moved into the first rank of science policy circles.
The demotion of science in political circles is not unprecedented -- witness the elimination of the Office of Technology Assessment, which advised Congress on scientific and technical issues, during the Gingrich revolution of the mid-1990's.
Since that time interest in the possibility of making the Anthropocene official had extended beyond geology and other Earth sciences and into circles of scholars interested in anthropology, history, and the environmental sciences, as well as to the press and the public at large.
