A Received View paper on species 24 Dec 2009 While I have some internet access via my GF (another fortnight! Is this the third world?) I will mention this paper in Evolution: Education and Outreach, on teaching about species. It’s a standard received view version, complete with Plato and all those logicians being read as if they were talking about biological species. Nothing all that deep. [Hat tip Richard Carter] Enjoy tomorrow’s conspicuous consumption. They way things are going, we may not be able to do this for very many more years… Education Species and systematics Species concept
Education Early modern philosophy texts for students 16 Mar 2009 As you may have noticed, I am something of a Victorian – as well as being from that wonderful state, I also write as if I were a nineteenth century writer. It comes of reading too many of them over too long a period. I have little trouble when the… Read More
Evolution The ontology of biology 1 – What an ontology really is 8 Nov 2008 It has become common in recent years for people to use terms of philosophy in distinct contexts, as it has terms of biology. Thus, ontology has gone the way of taxonomy, being dragooned into service of database techniques, to mean something quite the opposite of what it originally meant. I… Read More
Evolution Lewes on Heredity, in 1856 22 Jun 2007 I’m putting this up because I will use it to discuss the history of species definitions in a forthcoming talk. It’s very interesting for a number of reasons, one of which is the species nominalism, and another that Lewes argues from evidence for biparental inheritance some years before Mendel, and… Read More
Did I inform you about that paper? Or did you see it in my shared Google Reader items? I just don’t recall sending you the link…