I’m about to give a keynote… in Poland 4 Jul 20124 Jul 2012 This is a brave new world. I’m about to give a keynote address to the Naturalizing Religion conference in Kazimierz Dolny in Poland. Or I would be if their internet hadn’t just died completely. Stay tuned for further news of the way things go wrong at the very last moment (people were filing into the room!). I think the gods haven’t forgiven me for disbelieving. I should add: I’m in Wollongong Australia. But it’s no go today. The entire town’s internet just died. I swear it wasn’t me. Epistemology Philosophy Religion
Biology Ranking 24 Aug 2010 A diversion in the natural classification series. In natural classification, we typically do not find that patterns due to the process of historical causation come arrayed neatly in boxes within boxes, and yet one of the most common temptations is for classifiers to set up fixed ranks. The Linnaean scheme… Read More
Australian stuff David Armstrong dies 17 May 201417 May 2014 I received this message via the Australasian Association of Philosophy: The philosophical community will be saddened to learn that David Malet Armstrong died on the 13th of May after a long illness: two months shy of his 88th birthday. DMA or Armo, as he was affectionately known, is the most… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Leiter on Nagel on Meyer 11 Dec 2009 Brian Leiter gets it 100% right on Thomas Nagel’s ignorant review of the book by Stephen Meyer, of the intelligent design marketing agency, the Discovery [sic] Institute. Go read… Read More
That’s hilarious. I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Poland, and the internet dies quite a lot, along with many other technologies. They are trying so hard to shake that “backwards Eastern European” image, and I love them for it, but the results are mixed at best. For example, when my vehicle broke down, my Polish mechanic tried to fix it by jamming cardboard into the engine, which proceeded to catch on fire. True story.
Well, I’ve got more bad news. PZ has declared you a “kind” of atheist (shades of Henry Morris!). http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/04/what-kind-of-atheist-are-you/