It’s official – Wittgenstein wins in a landslide 11 Mar 2009 Leiter’s poll has Wittgenstein beating Frege. I’m disappointed that Peirce didn’t get a higher ranking, and astonished the Nietzsche did. History Humor
Biology Did Popper and Quine invent “Aristotelian essentialism”? 7 Feb 201221 Jun 2018 There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike. It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were… Read More
Biology Evolution quote: Sirks and Zirkle 25 Apr 201125 Apr 2011 At this point it might be well to insert a fact that has generally been overlooked by the historians of biology. The pre-evolutionary concept of species is generally given as a universally accepted view that species were constant and true breeding forms. Actually, the idea that species were completely stable… Read More
Evolution Natural selection fails with Man – W. R. Greg 12 Feb 2009 In the Descent of Man, Darwin cites a paper published about 5 years earlier by W. R. Greg, which argues that natural selection is not active among humans (or, as the convention had it then, “Man”). It is most interesting that he does, because Greg is the intellectual father of… Read More
I voted for Peirce, but before he switched to condorcet system. Should have gone again and voted and voted and voted.
Husserl got #17. w00t!! When I was in college I studied under Izchak Miller, a Husserl scholar. http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Izchak_Miller
wOOtgenstein? Pfft! [English soccer fan chant to tune of Guantanamera] John Stuart Mi-ill! There’s only John Stuart Mill! John Stuart Mii-ill! There’s only John Stuart Mill! [/English soccer fan chant to tune of Guantanamera]