Erdös Numbers in philosophy 9 Sep 2009 A little while ago I found out that I have an Erdös Number of 3. I published a paper with Wesley Elsberry: Wilkins, John S., and Wesley R. Elsberry. 2001. The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance. Biology and Philosophy 16 (November):711-724. Wesley has just published (or soon will) a paper with Jeffrey Shallit of the University of Waterloo: Elsberry, Wesley, and Jeffrey Shallit. Information theory, evolutionary computation, and Dembski’s “complex specified information”. Synthese. and Jeffrey has a number of papers coauthored with Erdös. I mentioned this to Mark Colyvan, who has the same number, and he tells me this is to be desired… Some guy apparently auctioned his Erdös number on eBay, coauthoring for cash. I’m not that venal (hint, hint). Humor
Administrative A notice of ET 8 Apr 2010 We here at the Institute for Making Computer Keys Click are often disheartened by the lack of public notice of our efforts, unlike that rat bastard PZ Meds who seems to have cornered the entire internet, and that which he doesn’t have, that rat bastard Bora at A Blog Around… Read More
Epistemology Spirits and Souls 18 Jun 201122 Jun 2018 Does Calamities of Nature read this blog? Or just Sean Carroll? Read More
Evolution On the problem of the problem of evil and Darwin 15 Mar 2011 In yet another essay reprising his argument that theists can be good Darwinians (a position I concur with, incidentally), Michael Ruse makes the following comment, based on a book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins, The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions: Where I do want… Read More
Congratulations! Wikipedia has a list of people with Erdös numbers up to 3, “List of people by Erdös number”.
What about small network theory in historical citations? That would be relevant to PE and our own work. Still waiting for the remunerative aspects to be clarified, though…