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
Humor A quote that should be true 13 Aug 2010 … even if it probably isn’t At a television news station, one of the employees put up a sign in the elevator: “The ‘7’ button is broken. Please press ‘4’ and ‘3’.” Then he stood back and watched the behavior of those people who are supposed to tell us what… Read More
Administrative Travel Diary 8 19 Oct 20094 Oct 2017 Today I went with Matt and Cathy Silberstein to Chris Thompson’s place on the Rockaway Beach, in howling gales and breath condensing weather (in other words, just like home), in Paul and Gail Gans’ car. Where we met John Pieret, mein host, Mitch Coffey and other talk.origins netizens whose names… 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…