AAHPSSS site now up 16 Nov 201316 Nov 2013 The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science now has a permanent and updateable website, courtesy of yours truly. It’s at aahpsss.net.au/ All Australasian folk, and visitors to the Lucky Lands, should check to see what is happening. I will put anything up that is relevant, so email me via the “official” address at website@aaphsss.org with any information. I say that you should use this address because if and when I cease being the webthing at AAHPSSS, that address will send to the person who steps over my cold bleeding corpse to take up the standard. Academe Australian stuff Philosophy Science
Academe Rant: Old people 13 Mar 201413 Mar 2014 The Australian government is looking at extending the pension age to 70, so that older Australians, especially those in the Baby Boom demographic, will be free of the public purse for another 5 years over the present age of 65. Except that it is not the case that older Australians… Read More
Philosophy On ontology and metaphysics: substance abuse 31 May 2008 I have for a long time now been very dissatisfied with the metaphysical categories bequeathed to us from Aristotle via a multitude of commentators and philosophers ranging from Boethius to Ockham to Locke to Hume to Kant. It seems to me that they are based on a prescientific notion of… Read More
Philosophy Floyer and the man-faced pig 20 Dec 201220 Dec 2012 This is from my forthcoming book with Malte Ebach. Floyer’s monster pigs and his use of homologies to eliminate the interspecies breeding claim In 1699, John Floyer reported upon a claim of interspecies breeding: human–pig. He had shown to him by a breeder in Staffordshire a new-born pig with what… Read More
Sorry, too late … I’ll never be able to think of it as anything else than “Ah Piss” … or maybe “Aww Piss!” 😉 But it looks to be a a good site. It’s a paying gig, I hope?