“There is a broad consensus that Archean granitoids formed by partial melting of hydrated mafic rocks in a stagnant lid geodynamic regime”. Many recent papers open with this sentence, or something along these lines. Reasons for the ostensible consensus are not difficult to find. A popular notio...
I have written aboutHerdera number of times, as inthis 2009 postwhere I said he and I “have much more in common than I had thought”; Michael Gilleland at Laudator Temporis Acti hasposteda couple of Isaiah Berlin passages about him (fromAgainst the Current: Essays in the History of Idea...