Expanding our Conceptions of the Impossible: A Conversation with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison, Part 3

In Part Three of Marginalia’s three-part conversation series lead by philosopher, scholar of religion, and Marginalia’s Editor-in-Chief, Samuel Loncar, historians Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison discuss how we can improve our scientific and historical understanding of "impossible facts" and the importance of expanding our perception of what is possible in the human experience.

Watch Parts One & Two

Some New World of Wonders: Levitation, Rationality, and Naturalism with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part One

Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two

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Carlos Eire is a National Book Award Winner, author of They Flew: A History of the Impossible (Yale University Press), and the Riggs Professor of History and Religion at Yale University. Peter Harrison is author of Some New World: Myths of the Supernatural in the Secular Age (Cambridge University Press), the Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia, and former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University.