Are you a HPS scholar? 30 Apr 2011 If so I invite you to join our group blog Whewell’s Ghost, even if you already blog. You can either write for WG directly or repost some or all of your blog’s posts with alink back to your home blog, thereby increasing your readership. Contact me or the other WG admin folk. Everyone from undergraduate to professor… Administrative History Philosophy Science AdministrativeHistoryPhilosophy
History Google Books, the last, worst, library? 30 Aug 2009 Geoff Nunberg over at Language Log gets stuck, justifiably, into the incredibly bad classification of books being scanned at Google Books. Give that this is, as he says, the likely last ever scan of all pre-electronic, pre-Mickey Mouse Amendment copyright, books, it means we have given up good libraries for… Read More
Biology Illiger’s Prodromus 13 Nov 2009 Does anyone have a scan of Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger’s Prodromus systematis et mammalium avium (1811), or at least the introductory section? It appears that Illiger is the one who introduced the rank of family to the Linnean system, and I’d like to find out more. Late note: Thanks to… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Evolution and its rivals – special issue of Synthese 16 Dec 2010 A special issue of the philosophical journal Synthese covers the topic “Evolution and its rivals”. It is open access until the end of this month, so you can get the papers now. The major discussions centre around intelligent design, which is the nearest to intellectual adequacy that creationism gets. There… Read More
When you have as much blubber as I do, you don’t need to swim. My only worry is that a Japanese Whaler might mistake me for a Minke and do research on me.
I’ll alert the Norwegian whaling fleet to patrol the coasts of Germany and keep a look out for a Moby Gorilla!
Then we would have to do our best Inspector Clouseau impression and ask them if they “have a lahss-ense for that Minke?”
Well I study fairy stories so I suspect I am ok. (that remark was made under the belief that if he can swim he can’t swim that far can he?)
p.s No I am not. Some of the comments that popped up on the living traditions thread on Whewells came as a massive surprise to me. The noise that surrounds such subjects is not particularly encouraging for the type of approach I use.