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Here is an interesting discussion of a recent paper on the operational and theoretical definitions of “epigenetics”. This term – which has a deep history,…

I received this via Channels: Dear Philosophers of Biology, You’ll be interested in the first biennial “Philosophy of Biology @ Madison” workshop/conference that we’ll be…

But this one’s going to be huge. The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science has a new group blog. [How do I know? I…

Marjorie Grene was a doyen of philosophy and history of biology, and I reviewed one of her last texts a while back and linked to…

Brian Leiter has asked who that was in the train of the New York Times declaring that it was Wittgenstein.So far, Russell is leading. Russell?…

David Chalmers and his student David Bourget at the Australian National University have developed a new resource: PhilPapers. This is a hot list to online…

Below the fold is a video produced by the Australasian Association of Philosophy back in the 1990s. The talking head is, I think, Graeme Graham Priest.

Siris has a nice short post on the use of “truth” in discourse: This appeal to truth is incantatory: it is not an argument but…

The body of the man who started off the modern scientific revolution in the 16th century, Nicholas Copernicus, has been found and his face reconstructed.