Monthly Archives: May 2010
FAPP on the doorstep
My copy of What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini has arrived and was waiting at the door for me this AM. God the British mail system is fast to Australia! Now I owe a series of posts on … Continue reading
Filed under Book, Evolution, Philosophy
Building a Milvian Bridge
Paul Griffiths is presenting our paper on evolutionary skepticism and religion at the University of Wollongong tomorrow, if you happen to be in the neighbourhood: Paul Griffiths (USyd) will be presenting at the University of Wollongong Philosophy Research Seminar series … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Philosophy, Religion
More on the CT teacher case
It now appears that the teacher who was forbidden to teach evolution because it was “philosophically unsatisfying” (ORLY?) was done so by the headmaster, Mark Ribbens, alone. Ribbens tried to impugn teacher Mark Tangarone, a teacher in the Talented and … Continue reading
Even more FAPPery
Richard Lewontin reviews FAPP in the New York Review of Books. It is a much more moderate review than many of the other reviews we have linked to. He ends up suggesting that biologists should not speculate on the origins … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Philosophy, Science
I should stand for Parliament perhaps
It’s the going thing in the UK. H/T Leiter.
Filed under Humor, Philosophy, Politics
Supernatural selection 2
Part one is here. Rossano divides naturalistic explanations of religion into five distinct types: (1) commitment theories, (2) cognitive theories, (3) ecological theories, (4) performance theories, and (5) experiential theories.I want to discuss this taxonomy.
Filed under Ecology and Biodiversity, Epistemology, Evolution, Philosophy, Religion, Social evolution
