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Sep 13, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Stephen Hicks |Kristian Svennevig
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica. We were baffled – the signal was unlike any previously recorded.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
talkingpointsmemo.com | Stephen Hicks
Stephen Hicks is a research fellow in computational seismology at UCL in London.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Stephen Hicks |Kristian Svennevig |Mineral Resources
The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one sawEarthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica. We were baffled – the signal was unlike any previously recorded. Instead of the frequency-rich rumble typical of earthquakes, this was a monotonous hum, containing only a single vibration frequency.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
stephenhicks.org | Stephen Hicks
It was twenty years ago this month that EP came out. Full title: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The book is an intellectual history of the roots of postmodernism. One-sentence thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible; the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
stephenhicks.org | Stephen Hicks
Reprising this chart on the Enlightenment of the long 1700s and it self-conscious grasp it its own significance. Related: My “Enlightenment Vision” flowchart and other posts and lectures on the Enlightenment. The chart is from Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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May 5, 2024 | 
stephenhicks.org | Stephen Hicks
Alexander Dugin is right-wing and religious—and a disciple of Heidegger‘s. Michael Foucault is left-wing and atheist—and a disciple of Heidegger‘s. Here is Dugin on the philosopher who accomplished “the most all-encompassing, paradoxical, profound, and penetrating study of Being.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
stephenhicks.org | Stephen Hicks
In 1959, Leo Strauss said: “the only great thinker in our time is Heidegger.”The full, disturbing context for that statement:“All rational liberal philosophic positions have lost their significance and power. One may deplore this, but I for one cannot bring myself to clinging to philosophical positions which have been shown to be inadequate. I am afraid that we shall have to make very great effort to find a solid basis for rational liberalism.
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Sep 16, 2023 | 
stephenhicks.org | Stephen Hicks
I’m happy to be joining the faculty of the new Peterson Academy, launching November 2023. I’ll be teaching two courses: Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy. (Syllabi forthcoming.) They’ll be recorded before a live studio audience in Miami, Florida. To attend, register here: https://petersonacademy.com/hicks.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
einpresswire.com | Stephen Hicks
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May 25, 2023 | 
stephenhicks.org | Stephen Hicks
Reprising this anecdote about philosopher Bertrand Russell’s opinion that the world would be better off with a Nazi victory. As reported by Richard Jencks, who was one of Russell’s students at UCLA in 1940:How does one makes that consequentialist calculation? Is it like this:Scenario 1: If the Nazis win, there will be many deaths from war and bestial Nazi government. But if they win, the Nazi will establish a world government; and if there is a world government, there will be no more war.
