Feeling smug 29 Jul 2009 … because I sent off two papers this week to journals. I’ll feel a lot smugger, of course, if they get accepted. One is on genetic information (yeah, you all know about that one!) and the other about natural kinds in biology, a historical-philosophical piece. We’ll see. Even more smugifying, I started a new paper on what it means to be atheist and agnostic: thanks to all my readers, discussants and outright opponents on this blog. It won’t be done for a few weeks or months, but it’s based closely on some of the arguments we’ve had here. I aim to submit it to Zygon. I’m continuing on my paper about evolution and religion and what it means if religion evolved for the truth of it (with Paul Griffiths), and also a talk about adaptation and religion, both of which I hope to give at a conference at Notre Dame in Indiana. *Sigh*, more travelling. I’m not as young as I once was. I only have four book reviews to do. I might write a book… [You watch. Now that I have invoked the academic gods, they will strike me down.] Epistemology Evolution Philosophy Religion Science
Philosophy Sokal on philosophers of science 5 Nov 2009 Julian Baggani has an interview up at The Philosophers’ Magazine with Alan Sokal, famous for the hoax that bears his name. In it Sokal says things about philosophy of science that he seems to think are dismissive, but which I would say are themselves philosophy of science claims that can… Read More
Epistemology On birds, and ornithologists, and mutual respect 31 Jul 20124 Oct 2017 Some time back I had dinner with Pete Richerson, a well known ornithologist and biological theorist. He told me and the rest of the table an anecdote about hooded crows. It seems that in order to capture one to band, the ornithologists must sneak in the dead of night to… Read More
I’ll be flying to NYC first and then Washington. So I might come via that airport – one I’ve been to before. Shall I visit Morris Minnesota? Does anyone even live there?
Good work. I haven’t ever perused the periodical, Zygon, before. Randomly picked out an article entitle “Beauty of the Living World”, which looks interesting. “I’ll feel a lot smugger, of course, if they get accepted.” True dat. Although I can never manage to drum up a sense of smugness on submission. Only a sense of fear and foreboding.
both of which I hope to give at a conference at Notre Dame in Indiana. Will you be announcing when this is? I’ll be in Bloomington at IU, and I’d be more than willing to head up to South Bend and see your presentation.
Two very intresting conference papers, would love to attend, bit to far from Edinburgh though. I take it they will turn up in print in some form in the future? Looking forward to seeing these ideas developed further.
This isn’t a democracy! It’s an elite group of bastards who happened to have wangled an invite. Actually, right now I don’t know, but I’ll be finalising the trip over the next week, so I’ll announce what I can when that’s done. I can always give other talks, you know, if someone wants to organise them…
One is on genetic information I’m looking forward to that. Will you be running it past the Fig Newton of Information Theory, by any chance?