Tag Archives: Philosophy
Synthese News
This post will give updates of the boycott status and I will move it to the top when it is updated. Update: Mohan Matthen asks if we are increasingly finding legal intervention in academic publishing. PD Magnus withdraws a paper … Continue reading
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Filed under Academe, Creationism and Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Disambiguating the Theory-Dependence of Observation thesis (TDOT)
For the past half century it has been largely agreed that one cannot observe without prior theory. This is rarely explicated, however, and there seems to be some ambiguity in the claims made. So I will do a rough taxonomy … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Philosophy, Science
Is reality liberal biased? Are liberals reality biased?
Josh Rosenau has a piece up on Chris Mooney’s latest article on the Republican war on science in the US. Conservative bodies around the western world seem to resist science when it conflicts with policy (usually driven by PR from … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Australian stuff, Philosophy, Politics, Social evolution
More on phenomena
Semifinalist for the 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize 2011 In my last post, I asked whether there was a foundation for my view that species are extra-theoretical phenomena. I have done some further reading, especially Michela Massimi’s book Kant and … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Science, Species and systematics, Species concept, Systematics
Quote: Eddington’s two tables
Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are … Continue reading
Filed under General Science, History, Philosophy, Quotes
Did humans lose dominance?
An extensive critical review has just been published online in advance of publication for Biology and Philosophy. The title is “Evolution and the loss of hierarchies: Dubreuil’s Human evolution and the origin of hierarchies: the state of nature” by Catherine … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Philosophy, Social dominance
