There have been calls for a program of replication in the humanities. Although usually thought of as confined to the hard sciences, replication may, under the correct conditions, be a useful tool for historians who propose an explanation of why a set of events occurred. But the program of replication in the humanities is challenged when we consider degrees of freedom, i.e., the number of independent parameters that function within a system. Evidence from the sciences has revealed that experimental variables once thought of as unimportant might in fact be critical. Change just one of them and the experimental result changes in ways that were at first unimaginable. How then, are we to know if the degrees of freedom offered as part of a historical explanation are indeed satisfactory? There are constraints to what may be replicated, but this is the case for the sciences no less than for the humanities.

Jeremy Brown

Zygon®

Zygon focuses on the questions of meaning and values that challenge individual and social existence today. It brings together the best thinking of the day from the physical, biological, and social sciences with ideas from philosophy, theology, and religious studies. The journal"s contributors seek to keep united what may often become disconnected: values with knowledge, goodness with truth, religion with science.

The journal Zygon focuses on the questions of meaning and values that challenge individual and social existence today. It brings together leading thoughts from the physical, biological, and social sciences with ideas from philosophy, theology, and religious studies. The contributors to the journal aim to unite what may often become disconnected: values with knowledge, goodness with truth, and religion with science.

《Zygon》期刊关注当今挑战个人和社会存在的意义与价值问题。它汇集了来自物理、生命和社会科学的前沿思考，以及哲学、神学和宗教研究的思想。期刊的贡献者们致力于将常常可能脱节的内容结合起来：将价值与知识、善与真理、宗教与科学相统一。

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