Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 8 Jan 201927 Feb 2019 The title page of the 1779 second edition. Readers may recall that I once posted a PDF of Hume’s Dialogues with the dialogues coloured by speaker. Recently I was asked by Alexander Afriat, of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, for the same in EPub format. So I have converted it (without too many errors, I hope) to EPub and put it up on Apple Books for free. Let me know if you catch any errors in it. Also, since I have the technology [“we can rebuild it”], let me know if there are any similar documents you might like formatted that way. The original PDF is here: [embeddoc url=”https://evolvingthoughts.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Hume-Dialogues.pdf” width=”100%” download=”all” viewer=”google”] Philosophy Religion
Epistemology Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini on natural selection 24 Feb 2010 As R. A. Fisher once noted, Evolution is not Natural Selection, but critics in Darwin’s day and since have focused on this aspect of his theory. The most recent is by a philosopher, Jerry Fodor, and cognitive scientist, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarin. I have not read the book, but what I have… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Miscellany 23 Dec 2008 Damn it’s hot. Around here, snow is at a premium, which means our solstitial celebrations are less active than those oop north. Anyway, I got interviewed last night on national radio, the ABC’s National Evening show, talking about the early ideas of philosophy to presenter Rhys Muldoon. Nice fellow. It… Read More
Politics The nightmare of Christianity 10 Sep 2009 … the Republican home schooled authoritarian version of it, anyway. An excerpt in The Nation from Max Blumenthal’s forthcoming book, Republican Gommorah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party. Read More