I should stand for Parliament perhaps 7 May 2010 It’s the going thing in the UK. H/T Leiter. Humor Philosophy Politics Philosophy
Biology More Peirce 8 Jan 2011 Far be it from me to wish to close any avenue by which truth may be arrived at; and if botanists and zoölogists come to the conclusion that botany and zoölogy must rest upon metaphysics, I have not a word of objection to make. Only I can tell them that… Read More
Evolution Building a Milvian Bridge 10 May 2010 Paul Griffiths is presenting our paper on evolutionary skepticism and religion at the University of Wollongong tomorrow, if you happen to be in the neighbourhood: Paul Griffiths (USyd) will be presenting at the University of Wollongong Philosophy Research Seminar series on Tuesday, May 11th. All are welcome to attend. Title: “When… Read More
Biology Book reviews 24 Apr 2010 Several interesting book reviews arrived in my feed this morning, of books I have not read. Jerry Coyne reviews FAPP’s What Darwin Got Wrong alongside Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth. I cannot help but think that he is on the one hand very easy on Dawkins and fails to… Read More
The Torries used the line that labour were all post modernists a few years back and were theirfore all liars given it’s truth claims. One of Oliver Letwin’s less sucessfull attack plans I suspect. I remembered the claim last week when I had to explain to the only conservative I know what non-empirical meant. He was utterly unacquainted with it’s meaning.