… because I sent off two papers this week to journals. I’ll feel a lot smugger, of course, if they get accepted. One is on genetic information (yeah, you all know about that one!) and the other about natural kinds in biology, a historical-philosophical piece. We’ll see.
Even more smugifying, I started a new paper on what it means to be atheist and agnostic: thanks to all my readers, discussants and outright opponents on this blog. It won’t be done for a few weeks or months, but it’s based closely on some of the arguments we’ve had here. I aim to submit it to Zygon.
I’m continuing on my paper about evolution and religion and what it means if religion evolved for the truth of it (with Paul Griffiths), and also a talk about adaptation and religion, both of which I hope to give at a conference at Notre Dame in Indiana. *Sigh*, more travelling. I’m not as young as I once was.
I only have four book reviews to do. I might write a book…
[You watch. Now that I have invoked the academic gods, they will strike me down.]
If you come in via Indianapolis, instead of O’Hare, let me know.
fusilier, ND ’71
James 2:24
I’ll be flying to NYC first and then Washington. So I might come via that airport – one I’ve been to before.
Shall I visit Morris Minnesota? Does anyone even live there?
Good work. I haven’t ever perused the periodical, Zygon, before. Randomly picked out an article entitle “Beauty of the Living World”, which looks interesting.
“I’ll feel a lot smugger, of course, if they get accepted.”
True dat. Although I can never manage to drum up a sense of smugness on submission. Only a sense of fear and foreboding.
Will you be announcing when this is? I’ll be in Bloomington at IU, and I’d be more than willing to head up to South Bend and see your presentation.
Two very intresting conference papers, would love to attend, bit to far from Edinburgh though.
I take it they will turn up in print in some form in the future? Looking forward to seeing these ideas developed further.
What and when is the Notre Dame conference?
The people have spoken, Wilkins! How can we go to your presentation?
This isn’t a democracy! It’s an elite group of bastards who happened to have wangled an invite.
Actually, right now I don’t know, but I’ll be finalising the trip over the next week, so I’ll announce what I can when that’s done.
I can always give other talks, you know, if someone wants to organise them…
http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/socrel2010.html
Or this one. Looks intresting.
http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/events/EpistemeConf2010.html
John, believe it or not, your preview of coming attractions has me drooling.
You have a sad life, Scott.
I’m looking forward to that.
Will you be running it past the Fig Newton of Information Theory, by any chance?