Author Archives: John S. Wilkins
Dark days
In case you didn’t notice, just recently a number of web giants, as well as innumerable other websites, went “dark” in protest against the attempts to control the internet by the US government. But the US isn’t the first nation … Continue reading
A philosophical apology from 1919 for not being pro-war
Leiter posted the PDF of this on his site. I can’t help but reproduce some of the choicer quotes: “DEAR FRIEND: Your letter gently but un-mistakably intimates that I am a slacker, a slacker in peace as well as in … Continue reading
Filed under History, Logic and philosophy, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Sermon, Social evolution, Truisms
A logical inference, or, on how to submit Carnival of Evolution posts
I could put this into standard logical form, or even argument map it, but I’m too lazy. However, since I’ll be hosting one of these soon, I should post this the way Bjørn Østman sent it to me: Carnival of … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Evolution
The Shandyan dilemma
Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe detective series among many others, has died. This is a partial post I started some time back, so I thought I’d post it as is. In Recalled to Life, Reginald Hill has … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, History, Philosophy, Social evolution
Sherlock Cumberbatch on Evolutionary Psychology
As always, click on the image to go see the entire Jonathon Rosenberg goodness
