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Published 8 Sep 2023
Category: Philosophy
Published 5 May 2023
Of Interest
One of the questions that have plagued my insomniac nights over the past decade or so is what makes something interesting. There are many proposals.…
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Published 18 Apr 2023
Understanding Species is here in hard copy
When I first watched Back to the future, I was mid-undergraduate studies, and had no thought that I would ever publish anything, but I was…
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Published 20 Mar 2023
Thoughts on classification
Species concepts and definitions in science As Robbie Burns once noted, the world is full of things. Philosophers and scientists alike ask whether that also…
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Published 27 Feb 2023
Order “Understanding Species” now!
So US is due in April, and Cambridge just sent me the flyer below. Notice how cheap this book is! You can buy 50 for…
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Published 26 Jan 2023
My Absent Career 14: The final decline
Once the Critical Reasoning project was done (a bit too early due to funding being overspent), I was adrift again, and (quite literally) checking out…
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Published 17 Jan 2023
My Absent Career 13: Critical mass
Having taught critical reasoning and studied the usual logic for philosophy undergrads, I felt that I had a pretty good understanding of logic and reasoning,…
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Published 6 Jan 2023
My Absent Career 12: The aged aged man
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…
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Published 5 Jan 2023
Advice to a student about essays
In between my absent career path, I just wrote this in reply to a student who wanted advice on their assignments, as they got around…
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