Monthly Archives: September 2010
Sorry for the absence
I’m preparing my semester’s teaching. It starts Monday so I may be a little quiet for a while. Contribute to a discussion or write a HPS piece for Whewell’s Ghost.
Filed under Administrative
For every philosopher
It’s an old joke: the one rigid and true law of economics is “For every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist”. But the joke was anticipated by Cicero back in the Roman times: “”There is nothing so absurd … Continue reading
Filed under Humor, Philosophy, Truisms
Crowdsourcing question: scientific method book?
I need a recommendation of a short simple book that provides a good, but not simplistic, outline of how it is that scientists reach their conclusions. Failing that, a good paper. Targeted at non-philosophy undergraduate students. I have been looking … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Epistemology, General Science, Philosophy, Science
Whewell’s Ghost, a HPS blog
In conjunction with John Lynch and Rebekah Higgit, a new blog has been launched for history and philosophy of science posts, entitled Whewell’s Ghost. Rebekah and I have kicked it off with a couple of posts. Anyone may contribute to … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, History, Philosophy, Science
9 1/2 Links
Things have been rather quiet lately, but there have been some good links. A paper entitled “Evolutionary Chance Mutation: A Defense of the Modern Synthesis’ Consensus View” has appeared on an open source journal. Tom Rees at Epiphenom has an … Continue reading
Philosophy TV
We’ve had bloggingheads.tv, and wotnot, but now we have hit the motherload; the real thing! Philosophy TV! Not enough philosophy of science yet, but subscribe in the hope…
Filed under Philosophy
