Monthly Archives: September 2010
Scientist’s Operating Manual – Introduction
If you open any number of science textbooks, introductions to the philosophy of science, or books that attack pseudoscience, you will find a discussion of What The Scientific Method Is. For it is assumed from the start that either there … Continue reading
Filed under Book, Epistemology, Science
Classic quotes: Hume
You propose then, Philo, said Cleanthes, to erect religious faith on philosophical scepticism; and you think, that if certainty or evidence be expelled from every other subject of enquiry, it will all retire to these theological doctrines, and there acquire … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, Science, Truisms
The Link in Red
Too many links! Here are some… @ Rationally Speaking: Eliezer Yudkowsky on Bayes and science: what? and Honest and Decent Humans Should Oppose This Pope [apropos of which, see Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing pope, and going public … Continue reading
On the origins of creativity
I’m not a very creative guy. I had an idea back in the 1970s, but I managed not to do anything about it in time for someone else to do something with an almost identical idea. I think I dodged … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Philosophy, Social evolution
Rieppel reviews my book
… at Metascience here. The book, of course, is my Species: A history of the idea. The concluding paragraph is this: Does Wilkins deliver on his promise? Does the ‘essentialism story’ capture the essence of the centuries old debate about … Continue reading
Filed under Book, History, Species concept
Linkballs
Been a while. Teaching. Sorry. Links:
