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On the Modern Project

Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise

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Utopianism •
Disenchantment •
Faith and Science •
Progress •
Scientism •
All

Essay | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

  • Robert H. Nelson

The Secular Religions of Progress

Robert H. Nelson

Essay | Winter/Spring 2013

Winter/Spring 2013

  • Randal R. Hendrickson

Swords into Syllogisms

On Steven Pinker and reason’s progress against violence

From: The Evolution of Human Nature

Randal R. Hendrickson

Fiction | Fall 2012

Fall 2012

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Hall of Fantasy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Essay | Fall 2012

Fall 2012

  • Jeremy Kessler

The Possibility of Progress

Reading “The Hall of Fantasy,” a too-cautionary tale

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Jeremy Kessler

Review | Fall 2012

Fall 2012

  • Matthew C. Rees

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty

Matthew C. Rees

Review | Summer 2012

Summer 2012

  • Samuel Matlack

The Physicists at Fifty

The classic play about Newton and Einstein in the madhouse — and whether dangerous science can be contained

Samuel Matlack

Fiction | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ethan Brand

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fire Worship

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Essay | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Diana Schaub

From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires

Reading three tales on the flames of progress

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Diana Schaub

Essay | Fall 2005

Fall 2005

  • Daniel Callahan

Conservatives, Liberals, and Medical Progress

Daniel Callahan

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