Interdisciplinarity never works 18 Jun 2010 Wait until the psych students convince the physics students that they are just hallucinating their pendulums. The the philosophy students will show them all that it’s just a matter of an error in language and they can all go about getting on with their oof!… where did that come from? Education Humor Metaphysics Philosophy Science Philosophy
Biology Some loose ends – Reductionism and Phylocode 26 Aug 201018 Sep 2017 I’ve been asked in the comments to cover two topics, neither of which I want to discuss at length because they are not easy to cover, and because they aren’t the focus of my rather intense monomania right now. They are: Reductionism and Phylocode. Read More
Evolution A casual disregard for facts 22 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 A little while back I linked to Sahotra Sarkar’s review of Steve Fuller’s Science versus Religion. Now Fuller has put up a defence at the Intelligent Design website, Uncommon Descent, under the gerrymandered image of a bacterial flagellum (if you want to know what a real flagellum would look like… Read More
History Reminiscences of one who was there 12 Apr 2010 Early on, when I thought I would be an intellectual, a dilettante but still an intellectual, at the age of 17 or so, I read several books that I found at a second hand bookstore (my usual place of recreation). One was a little volume called Critique of Pure Tolerance,… Read More
But, you know, those interdisciplinary literary critics who go on and on about theory of mind deserve to bopped in the head by a pendulum. And, come to think of it, let’s make that a Foucault pendulum. Call it Michel’s Revenge. Whap!
Inopportune invocations of M. Foucault are considered an act of war (and rather tacky) in most English literature seminars, you know (:
OMG. I was in a an institute retreat this week. We were talked at by a couple of sociologists. I think one of them should do a study of academic communication, and explain why they speak in such general terms, and why this annoys scientists so. In fairness, I was in a stats conference in Norway at the start of the week. I had a *ducks* fascinating chat on the train about creating random fields that were Markov, and *ducks* which even worked on manifolds. *ducks* thud Owwww. Physics is not as deterministic as they told us.