What to do with historical bastardry in our heroes? This is republished from my substack. Henceforth such posts – the equivalent of a magazine article…
Published 23 Nov 2022
Feet of clay problem
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Evolving Thoughts Posts
Published 23 Nov 2022
Species Problems and Beyond
In conjunction with Frank Zachos from the Natural History Museum Vienna, and Igor Pavlinov of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow (both mammalogists) I have…
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Published 23 Nov 2022
Aaannnddd we’re back!
Changing hosts should not cause major stress headaches, but there it is… Anyway, after a two week delay, ET is back.
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Published 28 Apr 2022
Account/Cause
aitia culpability, criminal responsibility, cause Aristotle sets out four things responsible for changes: “On the question “why” with respect to any process of generation or…
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Published 27 Apr 2022
Operative concepts
Gave a talk “The Good Species” yesterday (26 April 2022) to the HPS crowd at UniMelb. The discussion went a way I didn’t expect: classification…
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Published 25 Apr 2022
Being
Ousia Liddell and Scott: property; (philosophy) being, essence, reality. That which is one’s own, one’s property. Substance, as in “a man of substance”. In philosophy,…
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Published 21 Feb 2022
Greek words used in classical philosophy
I prepared this for an undergraduate class last year. I’m putting it up under the Creative Commons license here for people to use. If you…
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Published 18 Oct 2021
New edited species book
So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them. The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll…
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Published 9 Oct 2021
How to do numerical taxonomy
Published 11 Sep 2021
It was 20 years ago today…
Terror has reduced our rights and freedoms and given the ruling classes power over dissent. So says the Guardian opinion piece by Julian Borger. And…
