Launching Species 14 Feb 201827 Feb 2019 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder It’s out! Get it here. Hardback and Ebook. Administrative Science Species and systematics Species concept
Accommodationism Undefining religion 15 Feb 201429 Jun 2024 [This will be a series of posts based on a book I am writing – see last post] When anthropologists began to study religions in cultures other than the European context, which itself was based upon Roman jurisprudence, they encountered a difficulty. Until this time, in the mid-nineteenth century, “religion”… Read More
Biology On gods and religion 14 Oct 2009 I have just had a very pleasant meeting of the minds with Justin Barrett here in Oxford, who gave me some of his time. We agreed on a lot, and this has set me thinking that I should document some of the claims I intend to make in my research,… Read More
Metaphysics The nature of stochastic events in a block universe 26 Oct 201126 Oct 2011 Recently I had a paper accepted for Zygon in which I argued that God could create a universe with Darwinian accidents as a block universe. For those who have mercifully escaped the rigours and tribulations of the philosophy of time, a block universe is the entirety of the universe over… Read More
Dear John, Now that the comic strip SMBC has convinced me that qualia don’t exist, I realized that pain is a qualia. There is a problem because the usual refutation of solipsism is to drop a brick on the solipsists feet or other painful operation. This doesn’t work logically because the solipsist will state that he or she or whatever has no control over the alters. Anyway enjoy you last life as much as you can. Perhaps listen to F. J. Haydn’s String Quartets, they have been making me much happier and sadder, IOW alive. Yes, I’m Walter from TO, lost track of you. The group is just little fun without you.