Essays on the Scientific Revolution

Especially the significance of the Scientific Revolution for happiness studies

Read these essays (1-6) in order to understand how, when the scientific revolution put an end to teleological explanations, it thereby drained the universe of meaning. If you’ve ever heard a scientist or a philosopher of science say that the universe is without meaning, this is where it comes from. This history is important for my larger project of providing a genealogy of our concepts of happiness and meaning in life.

1. Appearance versus Reality from Thales to Newton (Free)

2. Teleological Causation and Broadcast Television (Free)

3. Why is there Something Rather than Nothing? (Free)

4. The Great Chain of Being and Nested Teleology (Free)

5. Seven Planets Because Seven Orifices (Free)

6. The Copernican Revolution (Paid subscribers only) (Unlocked temporarily)