This is a transcript of the lecture I gave at Leiden University. Bruno was a philosopher, a theologian, a mathematician, a magician, a monk – all at once. But if you ask me, the word I would choose to describe Bruno would be “reformer.” Bruno was someone who wanted to change things. He wanted to […]

The exponential growth of social networks has opened new avenues for innovators. As the world has shrunk, diffusion of innovations has grown faster, while the number of collaborative inventions has steadily increased. But a networked world has also its challenges. The channels that allow a disease to spread are those that prevent its cure from […]

“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers,” American philosopher William James famously wrote. The history of philosophy, with its high degree of conflict and individualism, seems to back up James’s claim. On the other hand, in recent years, philosophers – and humanists […]

This is a transcript of the talk I gave at the Elsevier Customer Program. René Descartes was a philosopher, mathematician and scientist. In fact, he was more than that – he was the father of modern philosophy and the inventor of analytic geometry. The Cartesian coordinate system and the Cartesian doubt – to mention two […]