There is only One Culture: Bringing Back Science into the Fold of Humanism
If we want to save the world, we don’t need gadgetry, we need to be what we are: human beings.
philosophical issues
Stephen Toulmin welcomes you to the end of modernity
This is a seemingly humble outlook, not as bold and self-assured as the modern project to control nature and perfect humanity. But it can be liberating, allowing us to see the world, both human and natural (as if there were actually a difference) in all its multiplicity and diversity.
‘An Ecomodernist Manifesto’: Truth and confusion in the same breath
What the ecomodernist narrative misses is that we are dealing with complex systems that support our very existence and that we don’t really understand those systems well. When dealing with things that are so complex that they are beyond our comprehension and control–especially if we are entirely dependent on those things–the first rule is not to perturb them. They will react in unpredictable and possibly ruinous ways.