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Conjecture Institute Glossary Is Live

We thought newcomers to these ideas and veterans alike could benefit from a webpage that defines, comments on, and offers examples for the words you'll…

Jun 9 •

May 2025

The Latest at Conjecture Institute

interviews, books, essays, Fellows, conferences

May 5 •

March 2025

Rat Fest 2025 Ticket Page is Live!

Conjecture Institute invites you to the fourth philosophy conference in Philadelphia for three days of workshops, talks, good food, new friends, old…

Mar 27 •

Conjecture Institute's First Fellows

Conjecture Institute's First Fellows

Mar 11 •

January 2025

The Sovereign Child: 18,000 copies sold, free PDF!

Thanks to everyone who has bought, reviewed, and shared The Sovereign Child!

Jan 22 •

MAGA Immigration: Ignoring Economics Isn’t ‘America First’

in the absence of the H1-B visa program, some tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans would have jobs, but hundreds of millions Americans would be…

Jan 9 •

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December 2024

Section II, Chapter Nine: Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, and Work

Can our notion of work tell us anything interesting about classical physics that Newton’s laws of motion cannot?

Dec 6, 2024 •

Section II, Chapter Eight: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation is an example of an inverse square law—the magnitude of the force due to gravity falls with the square of the…

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

Section II, Chapter Seven: Acceleration, Force, and Momentum

But if we can apply Newtonian mechanics to each object independently, why bother considering the set of objects to be a system at all?

Nov 25, 2024 •

October 2024

Section II, Chapter Six: Mathematical Interlude

Note—the mathematics of scalars, vectors, derivatives, and integrals are more general than this chapter suggests. I’m highlighting a few of the main…

Oct 27, 2024 •

Section II, Chapter Five: The Culmination

At long last, humanity had a physical theory that could explain the motion of stars and rocks alike using a single mathematical and conceptual…

Oct 16, 2024 •

Section II, Chapter Four: Inching Towards Universal Law

Astronomer Johannes Kepler’s (1571 - 1630) improvements to the Copernican model ultimately caused Newton to formulate his universal theory.

Oct 6, 2024 •

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