A local talk 15 Mar 202415 Mar 2024 My book Understanding Species is being given a delayed launch in conjunction with more weighty authors/publications on the 20th of this month: I’m the inadvertently grumpy one on the right. Australian stuff Biology Ethics and Moral Philosophy Species and systematics Species concept Systematics
Academe Why philosophers should publish in science journals 16 Feb 2011 Generally my papers cause a mild reaction – like a dose of poison ivy. But i just had a paper published in Zootaxa, a mild mannered systematics journal, and as well as a two week turnaround, unheard of in philosophy (my last big paper took a year and a half),… Read More
History The classification of clouds 26 Nov 201228 Nov 2012 [A segment of my new book, coauthored with Malte Ebach] The classification of clouds Clouds were regarded as so subjective, fleeting and resistant to classification that they were a byword for the failure of empirical classification, until Luke Howard in 1802 proposed the foundation for our present system of cloud… Read More
History A meme. A medieval meme. 25 Feb 200818 Sep 2017 … a female deer. Oops, sorry, wrong thread. Anyway, a medievalist, goblinpaladin, has tagged me with a meme. Now I don’t’ get tagged a lot with memes, possibly because folk know I have published on them, both for and more recently against, but you can’t deny the buggers on the… Read More