Lawrence Cahoone

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REFERENCES 1962. “ Memories of Rutherford.” In J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester, 102–13. London: Heywood. . 1989. Metaphysics of Natural Complexes. Edited by Kathleen Wallace and Armen Marsoobian with Robert Corrington. Albany: SUNY Press. . 2010. Origins of Objectivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . 2013. The Orders of Nature. Albany: SUNY Press. . 2014. “Physicalism, the Natural Sciences, and Naturalism.” Philo 16, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 130–44. . 2019.

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lawrence Cahoone

REFERENCES . 2010. Origins of Objectivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . 2013. The Orders of Nature. Albany: SUNY Press. . 1988. Enlightened Empiricism: An Examination of W. V. Quine's Theory of Knowledge. Tampa: University of South Florida Press. . 1995. “ Beyond Empiricism.” In A Philosophical Testament, 47–64. New York: Open Court. . 2009. Second Philosophy: A Naturalistic Method. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . 2010.

Dec 7, 2024 | quillette.com | Claire Lehmann |Lawrence Cahoone |Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson

Two days after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, I was sitting at my desk in the Sydney Central Business District. Zoe, my colleague, stood up from her desk with a worried look. Holding her phone, she told me that the New South Wales Board of Deputies had received a police warning: the safety of Jews in the city could not be guaranteed. The message she had just received was encouraging them to leave.

Dec 5, 2024 | quillette.com | Lawrence Cahoone |Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart

Introduction: My guest this week is Anna Gat. Anna is a Hungarian émigré who is now happily based in New York. A former poet, screenwriter, and playwright, in 2016 Anna founded Interintellect: a platform that allows people to create discussion forums, talks followed by Q&A sessions, and more informal meetups, both online and in person. Interintellect now hosts one or two salons every day and subscribers to the platform number in the tens of thousands.

Dec 5, 2024 | quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart |Lawrence Cahoone

Some commentators fear that the West is in decline or dying or committing suicide. Others look forward to this development. Still others claim there never has been a “West” to worry about. Each may be right about a different appendage of the elephant. The unipolar moment—the “end of history” in 1989 when the Cold War concluded and the West with its allies seemed triumphant—led to new globalisation, economic gains in the developing world, and an expansion of liberal democracy.