A review at Arnhart 18 Sep 2009 and a fair one I think. Not that I agree with him about Darwin, but there’s room for honest disagreement. Species concept
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 4: Predicting traits 29 Oct 20112 Nov 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Moralists Series1: Introduction2: Chains and Trees 3: Clades and grades4: Predicting traits5: Social dominance and power Species have typical traits, anatomically. There is, however, a bit of a myth that before Darwin people thought species had essences which were invariant for all organisms within them. Since this myth was… Read More
Epistemology Two new papers of mine 18 Aug 2009 Deflating genetic information – in which I argue that the only sense in which genes have “information” is the causal sense of specificity Darwin on species and heredity – in which I reprise some blog entries on this site about myths of Darwin. Both are under review, and hence neither… Read More
Administrative Update on a pilgrim’s progress 21 Jan 201122 Jun 2018 Okay, well it’s more like the John Wayne sense of “pilgrim” than John Bunyan, but here I am, having gotten out of Dodge Brisbane just as the latest natural disaster hit. “Here” being the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. Once my goods and chattels were “uplifted”, to use the quaint… Read More
I can’t comment on the review or the book (Species) because Species has not arrived in my college library. When it arrives and I read it, I will offer comments.
It’s a blog in-joke. I won’t get stuck into Chris Mooney’s and Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Unscientific America until I actually read it, and a number of people have said I don’t need to because I’ve read their blog.