Carnival of Evolution 2 May 2010 The 23rd edition of the Carnival of Evolution is up. It includes two of my posts, so you know that it can only get better. Go check it out. Evolution Evolution
Evolution Words and taxa 3 Nov 20074 Oct 2017 [This started as a discussion of the debate mentioned below. It got lost somewhere, and became me riffing on my favourite topics. Sorry.] I love it when people I know have a barny* in public, but it presents some delicate choices and sensibilities to be honoured. The case in point… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity What is a disease? 13 Feb 200818 Sep 2017 Biology does normativity all the time. There are things that are the “normal” type of state of a species, an organism, an ecosystem, and so on, and things that are abnormal. But the puzzling thing is that all philosophers know, since David Hume, that normativity doesn’t develop out of facts…. Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Species as objects of explanation 11 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 Following on from my previous post “Are species theoretical objects”, I want now to discuss what the status of species as phenomenal objects is. Read More
Well, then. We’ll have to see about improving the next edition by leaving you two out of it. You’ll have to plead with Zen Faulkes of Neurodojo, though.