Monthly Archives: April 2011
Are you a HPS scholar?
If so I invite you to join our group blog Whewell’s Ghost, even if you already blog. You can either write for WG directly or repost some or all of your blog’s posts with alink back to your home blog, … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, History, Philosophy, Science
Paper withdrawn from Synthese
Massimo Pigliucci, head of the Philosophy Program at City University of New York, and Raphael Scholl from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bern, have withdrawn a paper from Synthese. Here, with their permission, is the text of … Continue reading
Filed under Creationism and Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Believing and knowing
I was musing the other day, as I passed by a church school on a walk, on the difference between belief and knowledge. The teachers at that school must teach both. But, I thought, if they taught the wrong knowledge, … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Philosophy, Rant, Religion, Science
More on why Brian Blessed is a monkey
If this worked, you should see a rather nice, if occasionally naughty language using, discussion of the point I made I little while ago why we should redefine terms like “monkey” to include humans. Sorry John Hawks…
Filed under Evolution, Natural Classification, Species and systematics, Systematics
The bloggy kindness of strangers
Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. [Blanche DuBois, in Streetcar Named Desire 1951] I am going to do something I very rarely do: boost a commercial product. In the running of this blog I … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative
Pope on evolution: more of the same teleological thinking
Recently, the Pope did what religious leaders appear increasingly inclined to do on Easter: bash science: Benedict emphasised the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily, saying it was wrong to think at some point “in some tiny … Continue reading
Filed under Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution, History, Philosophy, Religion, Science
Evolution quote: Sirks and Zirkle
At this point it might be well to insert a fact that has generally been overlooked by the historians of biology. The pre-evolutionary concept of species is generally given as a universally accepted view that species were constant and true … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Evolution, History, Philosophy, Quotes, Species and systematics, Species concept
Amis to Hitchens on agnosticism
My dear Hitch: there has been much wild talk, among the believers, about your impending embrace of the sacred and the supernatural. This is of course insane. But I still hope to convert you, by sheer force of zealotry, to … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Philosophy, Religion
Open thread on Synthese
This thread is for anyone to discuss the matter in anyway they like, so long as the Comment Rules (at left) are respected. I have closed comments on the other threads, but some think the issue needs more discussion. Also … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Creationism and Intelligent Design, Philosophy
