March 29, 2025
Sue Curry Jansen and I, writing for Psyche, have a new essay out on the neglected philosopher Susanne Langer and metaphor: Metaphor, for Langer, is language’s law of growth. When there is no word available to express a new thought, we reach for analogy – for familiar...
March 11, 2025
Back in January, I wrote about a surprising, and disappointing, sin of omission at the Charleston Hub’s Against the Grain podcast. I’m a fan of Charleston and its parent organization, Annual Reviews, for a slew of reasons (just one of which is the AR’s pioneering role...
March 8, 2025
On the edge of scholarly-publishing relevance, a new journal that I’ve been building with Jamie Cohen-Cole and Philippe Fontaine—History of Social Science—has launched its first issue. The journal is published for the Society for the History of Recent Social Science...
