John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important.
He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up an ARC research fellowship at the University of Sydney. He is presently an Associate of Sydney. He has an Erdős number of three, of which he is unwarrantedly proud:
Wilkins, John S., and Wesley R. Elsberry. 2001. The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance. Biology and Philosophy 16 (November):711-724.
Elsberry, Wesley, and Jeffrey Shallit. 2011. Information theory, evolutionary computation, and Dembski’s “complex specified information”. Synthese 178 (2):237-270.
Erdős, Paul, and Jeffrey O. Shallit. 1991. New bounds on the length of finite pierce and Engel series. Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeux 3 (1):43-53. [Among several others]
After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books. Since then he has wandered aimlessly through the world dispensing unasked for advice with faux gravitas.
This blog is designed evolved to host any random thoughts that happen to be passing through my forebrain at a given moment. So there will be errors…
