Eonix Papers

The new blog, Kant’s Challenge, is starting up with a post: Rediscovering transcendental idealism

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Gavin Menzies: mad as a snake – or a visionary? Last Updated: 12:01am BST 01/08/2008 His first book claimed that the Chinese discovered America. Now, in a controversial sequel, Gavin Menzies says they also sparked the Renaissance The author of 1421 is at it again. As to whether the Chinese discovered America, one could remain [...]

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Post at Darwiniana on the question of punctuated equilibrium as treated in the third edition, a selection from the text.

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From the Archives to History And Evolution.com: to be upgraded. A frequently asked question is, What is the eonic effect? The term simply refers to a basic set of three turning points or transitions visible in world history, the birth of civilization, the classical period, with its remarkable so-called ‘Axial Age’. We speak of the [...]

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Time for this blog, so far specialized around ‘Site News’ to branch out into history, evolution and the eonic effect. Here, to begin, is an interesting book on the father of history, Herodotus. Students of the eonic effect will note that Herodotus, and the emergence of ‘history’, is correlated with the eonic effect itself, Herodotus [...]

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