Monthly Archives: March 2011

Somehow, I got minions/The first biological species concept revisited

It’s late in Real Time so I can only do a brief one now… I made the mistake of noting on Twitter that I lacked minions after PZ accused me of hating his. Of course I don’t hate them. It’s … Continue reading

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On the problem of the problem of evil and Darwin

In yet another essay reprising his argument that theists can be good Darwinians (a position I concur with, incidentally), Michael Ruse makes the following comment, based on a book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins, The Language of Science and … Continue reading

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Filed under Evolution, Humor, Philosophy, Religion, Science

I get email

Only one of the very many things I share with PZ Myers (apart from the success, the job, the handsomeness, the youth, and the Trophy Wife™) is that occasionally I get emails from crackpots. When you get an email whose … Continue reading

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Just wait until the Humeans get a sticker in law books

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Descartes before the horse – does information exist?

I have been kind of busy with actual, you know, work, which is ironic because I do not actually have, you know, employment. But I am teaching. Anyway this is by way of being an apology and apologia for not … Continue reading

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Filed under Metaphysics, Philosophy, Science

Pattern cladism and the myth of theory dependence of observation

A new paper has been published in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, entitled “Pattern Cladism, Homology, and Theory-Neutrality” by Christopher Pearson. Either the journal has done something horrible to the text, or the author doesn’t know the … Continue reading

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Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, Metaphysics, Natural Classification, Philosophy, Science, Systematics

xkcd again!

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