Chapter Two: Longing To Make Sense Of Things
CHAPTER TWO: LONGING TO MAKE SENSE OF THINGS
1. Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 7.
2. Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve, 2007), 282.
3. William James, The Will to Believe (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), 51.
4. Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), 147.
5. The reason for this is that history moves immediately from 1 BC to AD 1, without any intervening year 0.
6. Zygmunt Bauman, “On Writing: On Writing Sociology,” Theory, Culture & Society 17 (2000): 79–90, with quote from 79.
7. Charles S. Peirce, Collected Papers, ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, 8 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1931–60), 5:189. For further reflection on the notion of “abduction,” see Sami Paavola, “Abduction as a Logic of Discovery: The Importance of Strategies,” Foundations of Science 9 (2005): 267–83; Sami Paavola, “Peircean Abduction: Instinct, or Inference?’ Semiotica 153 (2005): 131–54.
8. See Michael Polanyi, “Science and Reality,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18 (1967): 177–96.
9. Isaiah Berlin, Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (New York: Viking Press, 1979), 1–11.
10. See esp. Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963).