* Right here’s one thing I didn’t see coming. Within the two years Extinct has been again in enterprise, I (Max) have written seven essays having to do with Charles Lyell, together with the brand new one I simply posted. So, I believed it is perhaps enjoyable to assemble these collectively in a single place. Name it “Lyell Central.” Or— let’s make it fancier— “The Charles Lyell Assortment.” (Pauses. Adjusts monocle. Retrieves billiard pipe.) In all probability I’ll write extra about him sooner or later: I can’t appear to assist myself. Anyway, right here’s every little thing I’ve written about Lyell and Lyellian geology thus far…
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Fact additionally has its paleontology, or when Pragmatism met uniformitarianism
January 19, 2023 (and reposted on December 28, 2024)
Wherein Max asks why on earth William James brings up paleontology when elaborating his pragmatic concept of reality*
[* It has to do with (what James understands of) the methods of Lyellian geology]
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/12/28/truth-also-has-its-paleontology-redux