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* Max Dresow writes…
I wrote the primary installment of my (not-actually-so-) brief essay collection “Problematica” on January 9, 2023. Since then I’ve written twenty-four extra of these items, totaling God is aware of what number of phrases. My concept in the beginning was to observe writing in a means that mixes scholarly rigor with stylistic freedom, which is to say: I’ve tried to write down in a means that dispenses with among the stuffier conventions of educational prose. On this I feel I’ve succeeded. I’ve additionally managed to test off lots of the gadgets on my potential subjects record, from “William Whewell” to “the Darwinized Gaia speculation” to “James Corridor on mountain-building.” This has been satisfying, not least as a result of I’ve achieved a lot of this writing throughout a time in my life when it has been difficult to make room for extra structured analysis. (I’m starting my third job in as a few years in September, and I’ve two youngsters beneath three!) Additionally, tutorial publishing is a racket and it has given me some satisfaction to place my work straight onto the web with out first signing away the copyright to Springer.
I’ve bought a lot extra to write down about, from agnostic biosignatures to the “Nice Taconic Controversy” to the Brasier/Schopf debate. However for now, listed here are the twenty-five essays I’ve written together with capsule descriptions. Should you’re on the lookout for suggestions, I’m particularly keen on essays 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17 and 19. (I’ll put a double-asterisk [**] subsequent to those.) Thanks for studying!
1. “Comparisons with Enamel: Two Hundred Years of Actualism in Paleontology” **
> An essay that makes use of early dinosaur paleontology and up to date modeling work on Otodus megalodon to discover the character of actualistic reasoning in paleontology