Amazing new philosophy resource 30 Jan 2009 David Chalmers and his student David Bourget at the Australian National University have developed a new resource: PhilPapers. This is a hot list to online versions of (so far) over 188,000 items in current philosophy. I checked my own papers and they were all there (something Thompson International seems unable to achieve). So on the Wilkins Narcissism Scale it rates very highly indeed. Check it out. It will make a big difference to students and teachers, let alone researchers. Uncategorized
Uncategorized New entry on Mach in Stanford Encyclopedia 21 May 2008 Ernst Mach is one of the more interesting of the nineteenth century polymaths. A physicist, he also kicked off positivism, and (I did not previously know) was an evolutionary epistemologist: Mach is part of the empiricist tradition, but he also believed in an a priori. But it is a biologized… Read More
Uncategorized Cambrian fossils at Kangaroo Island 28 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 Kangaroo Island is a largish island off the coast of South Australia, famous for its wildlife and food. It also has some of the best preserved Ediacaran Cambrian fossils, on a par with the famous Burgess Shale. A report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s TV show Catalyst recently showcased these,… Read More
Uncategorized The narratives of science journalism 14 Sep 2008 It occurs to me that I don’t have a good list of these, so I invite you all to list and name your favourite science journalism narratives. You know, the sorts of things that journalists must squeeze every science story into, no matter what the actual content. Journalists in general… Read More
I checked my own papers and they were all there (something Thompson International seems unable to achieve). Ooh! Ooh! WilkinsFest! Thanks for the tip. That should keep me busy for a while.
I checked my own papers and they were all there (something Thompson International seems unable to achieve). Ooh! Ooh! WilkinsFest! Thanks for the tip. That should keep me busy for a while.