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Beyond the Standard Model
Gordon Kane
reply by Édouard Brézin
[short_description] Spontaneous symmetry breaking has led physicists to possible solutions that extend the Standard Model theory to include gravity and dark matter candidates.
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On Broken Symmetry
Vladimir Zelevinsky
reply by Édouard Brézin
[short_description] From the practical position of a quantum theoretician working in low-energy physics, here is a more modest point of view on the symmetry problem, including its various manifestations and violations.
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The Euro Is Doomed
Brigitte Granville
reply by Gilles Dryancour
[short_description] As dismantling the monetary union may collapse the European project, doubts about the future of the euro are often unwelcome in polite society. Those expressing such views must proceed with great care.
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The Enchanted World Today
Jason Josephson-Storm
reply by Egil Asprem
[short_description] Are we really bereft of enchantment? Jason Josephson-Storm makes the case that modern society has never entirely let go of beliefs in the supernatural, enchantment, and magic.
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The Reemergence of Magical Beliefs
Adam Possamai
[short_description] In a postindustrial world dominated by science, institutional religion is in decline. Yet social actors are more and more interested in practicing their spirituality by themselves for themselves.
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Models of (Re–)Enchantment
Dafydd Mills Daniel
[short_description] In response to Max Weber’s “disenchantment of the world” thesis, there have been various attempts to re-enchant the world, not least by arguing that it did not become disenchanted in the first place.
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Reality, and All That
Ronald Green
[short_description] Reality, a notion that used to be associated with human perception, has been appropriated by physics and made irrelevant within a world where mathematical formulas rule supreme.
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Honoring Fodor
José Manuel Igoa
[short_description] Jerry Fodor made significant contributions to our knowledge of the human mind, of the nature of concepts and meaning, and of human language processing. Here is more on his atomistic theory of concepts.
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A Mathematician’s Mathematician
Graham Leach-Krouse
reply by Allyn Jackson
[short_description] We can learn a great deal about mathematics—not just its contents, but its nature—by entering into the intellectual worlds of its pioneers, those thinkers who cleared new spaces for inquiry.
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