At Los Alamos, for example, history was made by a collection of very thoughtful and intelligent men grappling with a wondrous scientific problem whose epoch-making implications were clear to most of them.
The key question is how a formally designated human epoch will shape scientific thought in the meantime.
This course explores diverse narratives of the Anthropocene epoch, interrogating the scientific work of defining and situating this era of anthropogenic change of the Earth System.
The organ became a veritable "Review of the West" in that several of the articles, which were translations of works previously published abroad, were important philosophic and scientific trends representative of "our epoch": Spengler, Huizinga, Simmel, Uexküll, Brentano, Heimoseth, Driesch, Pfänder, Müller, and Russell.
Finally, they tend to agree that we currently witness an epoch of profound disruption, of political and scientific revolutions, spreading into other realms of culture, giving rise to a metaphysical mutation.
The important thing, he stressed, is that the epoch be defined using traditional scientific criteria.
Like a vestigial limb, the vast swaths of public land in the West are the physical manifestation of an earlier era, a Progressive epoch that believed in the efficiency of "scientific management".
But perhaps a more exact definition would be "the compressed century," for never has a period of 100 years seen so many world wars, so many scientific and technological advances, so many revolutions, so many epoch-making events piled almost one on top of the other.
