A new philosophy and biology journal 11 Dec 2009 Massimo Pigliucci has just announced Philosophy & Theory in Biology, a new online open access journal. Its stated mission is to bring “together philosophers of science and theoretically inclined biologists to interact across disciplinary boundaries. This interaction fosters a broad conception of what it means to do “theory” in science and to analyze the sciences philosophically. “ It has an associated blog, for discussion of papers. I wonder if it might also be used to do reviews of the papers before they are finalised, like BBS? Biology Ecology and Biodiversity Epistemology Evolution Metaphysics Philosophy Science
Academe My Absent Career 12: The aged aged man 6 Jan 20236 Jan 2023 Suddenly I was out of work, I could not rejoin the postdoc, and I had to move to Sydney once again, to see if I could find anything. I did do some teaching at UNSW, but that was about it. I was in dire straits. And the Straits of Dire… Read More
Evolution Religion and Tolerance 21 Jul 2010 The video from the Religion and Toleration conference I attended is now online (details below the fold). Read More
Evolution New evolutionary blogger 27 Oct 2009 Sean Stan Rice, an evolutionary biologist at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, has started a blog: Honest-Ab (which he has named after a weed he once used in experiments; not noticing that it is named also after Theophrastus, Aristotle’s student who founded botany). Put it in your reader and watch it…. Read More