Darwin as a historiographer 9 Nov 200818 Sep 2017 I was very pleased to receive today my copy of this book: A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, edited by A. Tucker. Chichester UK: Wiley-Blackwell. I got it because on pp 405-415 is my essay “Darwin”, which I am rather proud of. I have long thought that Darwin as a philosopher of history is undervalued, but much more interesting than Hegel or Marx. Anyway, if you don’t tell anyone, I have made a rough scan available here, although you really ought to make your library buy a copy. Book History
Book Systematics and Biogeography blog 23 Oct 2007 The estimable Drs David Williams and Malte Ebach have started a blog on Systematics and Biogeography, which supports a recent book they haven’t sent me a free copy of yet. Expect much puncturing of pretensions and orthodoxies. Read More
History How to fix Iraq, and not invade Iran 28 Sep 200718 Sep 2017 There’s been a lot of media spin and unthinking objections to the visit of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the US. He was called the “modern Hitler”, for example. This strikes me as both unthinking and dangerous. Ahmadinejad is his own kind of threat and problem, and comparisons to past dangerous… Read More
It all seems so much clearer to me now. I really learned a great deal from this. Don’t tell anyone, but I am going to print a copy of this and save it. Thanks, John.
It all seems so much clearer to me now. I really learned a great deal from this. Don’t tell anyone, but I am going to print a copy of this and save it. Thanks, John.
It all seems so much clearer to me now. I really learned a great deal from this. Don’t tell anyone, but I am going to print a copy of this and save it. Thanks, John.