Suddenly I was out of work, I could not rejoin the postdoc, and I had to move to Sydney once again, to see if I…
Published 6 Jan 2023
My Absent Career 12: The aged aged man
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Published 11 Jul 2019
ISHPSSB talk revised
So I have double checked the technology (USB-C is marvellous) and the computer and iPhone combo (for remote control of the Keynote) works. All that…
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Published 12 Mar 2014
Rant: Old people
The Australian government is looking at extending the pension age to 70, so that older Australians, especially those in the Baby Boom demographic, will be…
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Published 30 Dec 2013
How to review books, quickly and informatively
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Published 1 Dec 2013
My book is published
See the book at the right entitled The Nature of Classification? According to the website you go to when you click on the cover, it…
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Published 16 Nov 2013
AAHPSSS site now up
The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science now has a permanent and updateable website, courtesy of yours truly. It’s at…
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Published 29 Jun 2013
Jobs for Philosophers and PhilJobs to merge!
For non American graduates or those too poor to subscribe to the American Philosophical Association, the publication Jobs for Philosophers has been hard to access. David…
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Published 25 Nov 2012
My latest paper – Carving Nature at its Joints, a review
You can find it online here. A very interesting but ultimately, to me, largely frustrating book (because it didn’t answer my questions, goddammit!). Review –…
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Published 15 Mar 2012
More on the editorial rewrite of the referee report
The reviewer that I mentioned in the last post has let me know that the editor is blaming the manuscript submission system: I wrote to…
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Published 11 Mar 2012
Is this common: editors rewriting referees reports?
I just heard of this secondhand, and so I don’t have details of the journal, and even if I did it’s not my place to…
