Between Experience and Experiment

Putting Experience First

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Hampton, Timothy. “Putting Experience First.” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1, no. 2 (April 3, 2010): http://rofl.stanford.edu/node/53.

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Volume 1, Issue 2

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Timothy Hampton

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In an essay entitled “Putting Cruelty First,” from her book Ordinary Vices, the philosopher Judith Shklar asks what the consequences are for moral action if we take cruelty, as Montaigne does in his essay on cruelty, as the worst of all vices.

Atheism as a Devotional Category

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Hoffmann, George. “Atheism as a Devotional Category.” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1, no. 2 (April 3, 2010): http://rofl.stanford.edu/node/55.

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Volume 1, Issue 2

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George Hoffmann

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Opposites are things alike in all significant respects but one.

Montaigne: The Eclectic Pragmatist

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Long, Anthony. “Montaigne: The Eclectic Pragmatist.” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1, no. 2 (April 3, 2010): http://rofl.stanford.edu/node/57.

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Volume 1, Issue 2

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Anthony Long

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Unlike my fellow contributors, I am not an expert on Montaigne, so what was I doing at the roundtable where these presentations were originally given?

Machines in the Garden

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Riskin, Jessica. “Machines in the Garden.” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1, no. 2 (April 3, 2010): http://rofl.stanford.edu/node/59.

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Volume 1, Issue 2

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Jessica Riskin

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What does it mean to be alive and conscious: an aware, thinking creature?

Artificial Men: Alchemy, Transubstantiation, and the Homunculus

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Campbell, Mary Baine. “Artificial Men: Alchemy, Transubstantiation, and the Homunculus.” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1, no. 2 (April 3, 2010): http://rofl.stanford.edu/node/61.

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Volume 1, Issue 2

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Mary Baine Campbell

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Therefore the Philosophers have created a Phenix, and Salamander. For if it were done by the conception of two bodies, it would be a thing subject to death; but because it revives it self alone, the former body being destroyed, it riseth up another body incorruptible.

—Sandivogius, A New Light of Alchymie (trans. 1650)