New article[s] at the Stanford Encyclopedia 15 Sep 2009 Kant on space and time, by Andrew Janiak Information processing and thermodynamic entropy, by Owen Maroney Metaphysics
Epistemology Species, phenomena and data 2 Jun 20112 Jun 2011 Just lately I have been trying to support my belief that species are not units of biological theory, but phenomena that call for explanation. Several things have followed from this: Species turn out on this view not to be causal entities, but rather epiphenomena of causal processes at the individual… Read More
Academe My latest paper – Carving Nature at its Joints, a review 25 Nov 201225 Nov 2012 You can find it online here. A very interesting but ultimately, to me, largely frustrating book (because it didn’t answer my questions, goddammit!). Review – Carving Nature at Its Joints Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke and Matthew H. Slater (Editors) MIT Press, 2012… Read More
Evolution Butler’s word games 11 Sep 2009 Gary Nelson recently sent me a paper from G. G. Simpson, published back around 1961: Simpson, GG. 1961. Lamarck, Darwin and Butler, three approaches to evolution. The American Scholar 30 (2):239-249. Unfortunately, this is not online, even through JSTOR, but it’s a wonderful essay, in which Simpson excoriates Samuel Butler’s… Read More
Kant on space and time, by Andrew Janiak Earlier this year, there was some buzz in the science news about new quantum evidence for a “holographic universe”, in which we would only have 2 real spatial dimensions, while the 3rd would be holographic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203130708.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle