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
Ecology and Biodiversity Virulence and vectors 18 Mar 202018 Mar 2020 Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of Paul Ewald’s book Evolution of infectious disease (1994). Ewald begins with the question of whether parasites and pathogens evolve towards commensuality (the state of being mutually beneficial, which is what, among others, Macfarlane Burnet thought, along with many immunologists and epidemiologists. Ewald points out… Read More
Epistemology Is the dismal science even possible? 4 Feb 20124 Feb 2012 A thought occurred to me. Given that money is an abstraction of an abstraction (value) of an abstraction (resources and labor) of things, and so has no standing in any ontology of society, is economics even possible as a science? I mean, linguistics is a science because it involves natural… 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?