November, 2009

Continuity and Discontinuity

by Jack Goldstone
The Conversation
November 11th, 2009

I am delighted to be taking part in such an important and rich conversation with sharp and witty intellectual colleagues — our disagreements here are as stimulating as those things on which we can agree. I’d like to highlight the odd fact that I disagree entirely with most of what Anthony Pagden says about the [...]

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A Question of Timing

by Anthony Pagden
The Conversation
November 11th, 2009

I would like to thank Professor Davies for his courteous response to my criticism of this thesis.  I still do not think that his chronologies work. Without becoming bogged down in an historian’s squabble over dates, what seems to be at stake is just how much time one assumes has to pass, in particular in a world, or worlds, [...]

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