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  • THE RESTLESS CLOCK
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    THE RESTLESS CLOCK
    JESSICA RISKIN
    Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevit...

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  • SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY
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    SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY
    JESSICA RISKIN
    Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, pra...

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  • GENESIS REDUX
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    GENESIS REDUX
    JESSICA RISKIN
    Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in mac...

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