Understanding Society

Serious nuclear accidents are rare but potentially devastating to people, land, and agriculture. (It appears that minor to moderate nuclear...

Hegel provided a powerful conception of human beings in the world and a rich conception of freedom. Key to that conception is the ide...

There was a time in the philosophy of science when it may have been believed that scientific knowledge develops in a logical, linear way...

It is intriguing to observe how pervasive organizational and regulatory failures are in our collective lives. Once you are sensitized to...

The 1986 meltdown of reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the greatest nuclear disaster the world has yet seen. Le...

Andrew Hopkins has written a number of fascinating case studies of industrial accidents, usually in the field of petrochemicals. These b...

One of the benefits of attending international conferences is meeting interesting scholars from different countries and traditions. I ha...