Essays on the Scientific Revolution
Especially the significance of the Scientific Revolution for happiness studies
Read these essays (1-6) 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.
The Copernican Revolution (
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Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem
[First published in The Missouri Review, Summer 2026] Two years ago, my fiancée told me that I’d been sleepwalking and carrying on full-fledged conversations with her each night. When Kelly first relayed this, her brow twitched slightly with what I took to be suppressed irritation. These mornings, I never ...