A Mornington Crescent thread 22 Jun 2010 Using the 1972 revision of the Stovold Rules, with an Amersham reversal and a Bank Holiday, commence at Ealing Broadway. All lifts are out of order, and account must be taken of current works. Philosophy
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Morality and Evolution 6: Moral dispositions 21 May 201422 May 2014 [Morality and Evolution 1 2 3 4 5 6 7] In any field that has statistical variation, it is necessary to isolate the variables. Biology is all about statistical variation of populations, and so we must expect that any account of morality that is based upon biology will have variation along a number of axes. Here… Read More
Biology David Hull’s philosophy 12 Aug 2010 David Hull was one of the first graduates from the University of Indiana’s HPS program. During that program he attended a seminar with Karl Popper in the course of which he wrote a paper on essentialism in biology. Popper took it upon himself to send this, without telling Hull, to… Read More
Evolution What is “nature”? 2 Jan 20142 Jan 2014 Many critics of science, including Christian philosophers like Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig,attack something they call “naturalism”, the view that the natural world is all there is. As Papineau notes in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, the term has no very precise meaning in philosophy, or in science…. Read More
OK, watch this. Ealing Broadway is an anagram of “I go learn bad way”, right? Now, a moderately bad way to learn something would be to ask my grandparents (on Dad’s side), who have been remarkably disinclined to share their knowledge ever since the nineties, when they died. Furthermore, an even worse way to learn something would be to look for my grandparents in a station named after the house in which they lived, which was called Edgware. So I believe that gets me to Edgware.
First of all, Dragon: wow. But second I want an adjudication on whether your way of learning something is sufficiently bad. We will need to consult with experts on the rules, on the tube, and on the occult.
In the interests of full disclosure, Edgware (my grandparents’ house) was in Wattle Park, Adelaide. I don’t think I’m obliged to reveal the street name and number, but I may be thinking of a different version of the game.
There is a way to avoid the construction. Take the bus to CSULB Library. Get a ride to the Blue Line; from there another bus to LAX, then any carrier to London. At Heathrow, take the Express to Paddington. Since it is a third Tuesday, you can use Bhutanese ngultrums; pence not necessary.
According to Wikipedia, “The date line poses a problem for religious travelers relative to the day on which to observe the Shabbat and Holidays.” Since I am an atheist, it does not apply.