Dlittle30

LATEST ARTICLES ( 893 )

• Conditions for a Resilient Diverse Democracy

  

  Under what conditions can a modern mass society embodying differences of race, religion, and political ideology maintain a functioning commitment to democracy... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2020 SOCIETY

• Who Was Angelo Herndon?

  

  In a previous post I quoted Langston Hughes' 1938 poem "The Kids Who Die", which is very powerful in the context of our current crisis of police use of deadly... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 SOCIETY

• The Kerala Dialogue on COVID-19

  

  The Indian state of Kerala has taken an especially active approach to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kerala, a state of more than 33 million people, is... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2020 SOCIETY

• STS and Big Science

  

  A previous post noted the rapid transition in the twentieth century from small physics (Niels Bohr) to large physics (Ernest Lawrence). Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2020 SOCIETY

• The Arc of Justice

  

  It has been over a month since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The horror, brutality, and relentless cruelty of George Floyd's death moves everyone... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2020 SOCIETY

• Big Physics and Small Physics

  

  When Niels Bohr traveled to Britain in 1911 to study at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, the director was J.J. Thompson and the annual budget was minimal. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2020 SOCIETY

• Guest Post by Nicholas Preuth

  

  Nicholas Preuth is a philosophy student at the University of Michigan. His primary interests fall in the philosophy of law and the philosophy of social... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2020 SOCIETY

• A Big-data Contribution to the History of Philosophy

  

  The history of philosophy is generally written by subject experts who explore and follow a tradition of thought about which figures and topics were "pivotal" an... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2020 SOCIETY

• ABM Models for the COVID-19 Pandemic

  

  In an earlier post I mentioned that agent-based models provide a substantially different way of approaching the problem of pandemic modeling. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2020 SOCIETY

• Alternative Social Systems and Individual Wellbeing

  

  Communism ...or Capitalism?A joke from Poland in the 1970s: "In capitalism it is a question of man's exploitation by man. In communism it is the reverse. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Defining the Philosophy of Technology

  

  The philosophy of technology ought to be an important field within contemporary philosophy, given the centrality of technology in our lives. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Thinking About Pandemic Models

  

  One thing that is clear from the pandemic crisis that is shaking the world is the crucial need we have for models that allow us to estimate the future behavior... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Good Government and the Pandemic

  

  Governments at multiple levels are making decisions that affect all of us in ways that really matter. Our health may be protected, or we may contract a serious... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Right-wing Extremism and the Covid-19 Crisis

  

  No one needs to be brought up to date on the devastation already wrought by Covid-19, in the United States, in Europe, and in other parts of the world, and... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Did Marx Invent "class Conflict"?

  

  Marx offered several theories of the modern world that he observed around him in mid-nineteenth-century Britain that have influenced much of turmoil that... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2020 SOCIETY

• The Democratic Dilemma of Trust

  

  In 2007 Chuck Tilly published an intriguing historical and theoretical study of the politics of equality and voice, Democracy. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Social Factors Driving Technology

  

  In a recent post I addressed the question of how social and political circumstances influence the direction of technological change (link). Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2020 SOCIETY

• The Malthusian Problem for Scientific Research

  

  It seems that there is a kind of inverse Malthusian structure to scientific research and knowledge. Topics for research and investigation multiply geometrically... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Literature and Memory

  

  As a way of finding some interesting distraction in the social isolation of Covid-19 I have been reading Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Thomas Hughes on Electric Power as a Sociotechnical System

  

  We have quite a few ideas about how technology affects us personally and socially. But we are less aware of the ways in which facts about the contemporary socia... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 SOCIETY