Understanding Society

We think of artifacts as being "functional" in a specific sense: their characteristics are well designed and adjusted for thei...

An increasingly pressing consequence of climate change is the rising threat of flood in coastal and riverine communities. And yet a co...

An earlier post highlighted Alexandre Kojève's presentation of Hegel's rich conception of labor, freedom, and human self-creati...

The Federal agency responsible for investigating chemical and petrochemical accidents in the United States is the Chemical Safety Board ...

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...