Oakland Journal Number 16: Winter 2009

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Cosmology, Doom, and Gloom: Some Copernican, Anthropic, and Malthusian Musings
(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.
If population growth is unchecked, or not sufficiently checked, there are any number of things that could cause a catastrophic collapse and extinction of the human species. These include (but are not limited to) worldwide famine, pandemic disease, global warming, all out nuclear war, and mass extinction of species leading to large scale collapse of ecosystems. Human history would thus consist of three periods, a long period of very low population, followed by a short period of exponential growth, followed by extinction.
Matthew Stanley’s Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington: Valence Values and the Late Victorian Science-Religion Interface/Divide- A Review Essay
(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.
The relationship of science to religion and literature continues to be an issue of vexation, especially here in the U.S. A logical way, perhaps, to begin this review essay on a late Victorian, early-modern work integrating science and religion is by observing that in this period the walls between science and other epistemics were quite porous.