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
Book New edited species book 19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021 So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them. The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll give the table of contents below. The beautiful cover art is by Scott Partridge, an artist in North Carolina. It is entitled Abyssal Zone. Table… Read More
Epistemology Phylogeny, induction, and the straight rule of homology 8 Jan 201122 Jun 2018 Continuing my “natural classification” series, which I am writing with Dr Malte Ebach of UNSW. After having experienced the circulation of the blood in human creatures, we make no doubt that it takes place in Titius and Maevius. But from its circulation in frogs and fishes, it is only a… Read More
Epistemology Prescriptions for atheists 25 Nov 201122 Jun 2018 Jeez. You go away for a few days, to the beach and countryside, and come back to find that progress has been made in philosophy; in particular regarding the right view to hold about religion and the religious. The story so far: I wrote a series of posts about agnosticism,… 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?