Competition winners 2 Nov 20112 Nov 2011 In case people did not notice my announcement in the comments of that post, the winners of a signed copy of my species history book are: Cameron Peters Doug G Elais Jackson Jesse Schaefer Lorax sbh Send me an email with your addresses. I will send the books as soon as I can locate the moving box that has them in. Administrative Species concept
Administrative The begging bowl 2 Jun 200922 Jun 2018 A few eagle eyed readers will note that I have added a “Donate” button in the sidebar, and not content with that shameless plug for grift, a “Donate” page as well in the tabs. When I was at Seed’s Scienceblogs, I was on easy street. They paid for all the… Read More
Administrative Travel Diary 5 12 Oct 2009 So, here I am in Oxford, about to go and explore. The conference in Göttingen was absolutely marvellous. I met many interesting people (below the fold I tell you about a few). My only objection was that there was too much data! I’m a philosopher, Jim, not a scientist. Actually,… Read More
Epistemology Operative concepts 27 Apr 202227 Apr 2022 Gave a talk “The Good Species” yesterday (26 April 2022) to the HPS crowd at UniMelb. The discussion went a way I didn’t expect: classification in the psychiatric and medical domains. I proposed a third kind of concept formation in science: what I am calling “operative concepts”: folk terms and… Read More
I am glad to see my request to definitively not win has been honoured. Most kind, John. Most kind. Therefore I shall congratulate the winners and tell my 2 and a half year old son to ignore me and do the direct opposite of what I am asking him to do. Two successes in one day, achievable goals, achievable goals… 😉 Louis
Congratulations, winners! I guess I’ll have to resort to stalking John at conferences to get a copy of his book signed :).
I love the idea of a free book, congrats to the winners, and the signature is a bonus, but the burning question is, how much for just the signature, and what is your bank account information?
w00t!!11!! I just want to thank god (aka silverback and his virtual dice) for the win. Don’t know how I previously missed this post .