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
Evolution Tautology 6: A resolution 3 Sep 200922 Jun 2018 If, as Byerly and Michod think, along with many others such as Brandon (1990), there are two kinds of “fitness”; actual and expected, and only with actual fitness is there any possibility of a tautology, we need to work out what expected fitness is. Brandon calls it “adaptedness” proper; a… Read More
Education The fourth R: Reasoning 19 Apr 2010 I very much like this attempt, successful so far, it seems, to teach philosophy to school children. But I suspect that it will eventually threaten someone or other. Read More
Metaphysics On hierarchies 29 Jun 200922 Jun 2018 We often make an appeal to hierarchical relations, in social and political discourse, in religion, in metaphysics (or that odd part of it called mereology) and more recently in social behaviour in animals, called ethology. But what we don’t do much is discuss what it is that a hierarchy is,… 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.