Essays on the Scientific Revolution, a 6-part Series

With a focus on the significance of the Scientific Revolution for happiness studies. Never thought of that connection, didcha?

Read these essays to understand how, when the Scientific Revolution of the 1600s put an end to teleological explanations, it thereby drained the universe of meaning. If you’ve ever heard a scientist or a philosopher 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)