Albert and Carroll on bloggingheads.tv 21 Jun 2008 Philosopher David Albert and physicist Sean Carroll* will be doing a Bloggingheads.tv spot like the one Paul Myeahs and I did recently. I’ll add the direct URL when it comes online. Update: The spot is here. In particular note the segment on how Albert got suckered by the What the Bleep Do We Know? filmmakers (shades of Expelled. Is this s trend in science denial documentary making in the US?). * Not the biology Sean Carroll, the physicist Sean Carroll. General Science
General Science More roundup 14 Oct 2008 … those weeds won’t ever go away. The inimitable Siris notes the problem with the myth that the US Electoral College is a restraint upon democracy (when it makes presidential elections possible where previously they weren’t, so how can it be a restraint?). The article in the New Yorker he… Read More
Administrative More of me in Spanish, and information again 4 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 A blog post by the incredibly multilingual John Wilkins (who knew he spoke French, Portuguese and Spanish? OK, it’s by proxy, but it’s nearly as good as actually speaking it) is now available in Spanish. Gee but he looks like he knows whereof he speaks… Thanks to Eduardo Zugasti for… Read More
Book My species definitions reader is accepted for publication 15 Aug 2007 I have a book forthcoming, Species definitions: a sourcebook from antiquity to today, which gives and commentates definitions of “species” in logic and biology for 2,500 years, from Plato to Templeton and beyond. It’s designed as a reader for scholars to see how the notion[s] have evolved separately in the… Read More