Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon 22 Jun 2010 My next book [I just love the sound of that] has been published. Here’s a flyer. It’s an anthology of papers on the title topics, with an introduction by yours truly… it’s cheaper if you buy it directly from the publisher from here. Many thanks to Neil Levy, series editor and patient and forebearing man… Book Creationism and Intelligent Design Philosophy Religion Science Social evolution Philosophy
Creationism and Intelligent Design Carroll v. Craig – a telling comment 25 Feb 2014 Sean Carroll just debated William Lane Craig. In his summing up, Sean wrote In terms of style, from my perspective things got a bit frustrating, because the following pattern repeated multiple times: Craig would make an argument, I would reply, and Craig would just repeat the original argument. For example,… Read More
Accommodationism Accommodating Science: Neurobiology and the mind 1 27 Mar 201427 Mar 2014 [This is part of the as yet unfinished section of the “Which Science? chapter.] The argument over evolution versus intelligent design … is a relatively small-stakes theological issue compared with the potential eruption in neuroscience over the material nature of the mind. Siding with evolution does not really pose a… Read More
Biology Godfrey Smith’s book 27 Jul 2009 Peter Godfrey Smith is a leading philosopher of biology, a professor at Harvard. He has recently published an important book on the nature of evolution, Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, in which he moves away from the gene centrism of Dawkins to a reproducer view in which objects that form… Read More
I don’t know… It says in the flyer that God is watching me. Does God just watch through the book or from elsewhere? If from the book, if I put something over it, can he/she/it see through? There are privacy issues here.
Congrats! Every new finished project is like a little battle won against entropy. Or at least that’s the way I seem to be seeing it these days.
I think “My most recent book …” provides the coolest connotations, as in “I put together my most recent book in my spare time whilst watching the French meltdown at the World Cup.”
A number of reactions to reading these news. Glad to see Neil Levy involved. Talked to him a few years ago about the area so it’s good to see him getting into it. He is indeed a great guy. The selection looks pretty good. Very happy to see it open with Joseph Bulbulia’s review. I remember spilling my drink from laughter the first time I read it. I spilled my drink again seeing the price. It would be lovely to have the full set but there is no way either I or even my uni library can afford that kind of money.
Gosh darn. I would like to have written a bit about modeling manufacture rather than detecting design. Does anybody point that out?