Ooh! Shiny! 4 Sep 20134 Sep 2013 Just got the draft cover art of my new book with Malte Ebach: I designed the logo myself… clever, hey? Epistemology Metaphysics Natural Classification Philosophy Science Systematics Theories
Academe Synthese News 16 Jul 201116 Jul 2011 This post will give updates of the boycott status and I will move it to the top when it is updated. Update: Mohan Matthen asks if we are increasingly finding legal intervention in academic publishing. PD Magnus withdraws a paper from a Synthese special issue. The Status Page is now… Read More
Evolution No, it’s not an ancestor either (probably) 19 May 200918 Sep 2017 In addition to the “missing link” trope that is being dished out about the new primate fossil, is another one, more subtle and insidious: it’s the ancestor of all primates. How do they know that? Consider a biologically realistic scenario: at the time there were probably hundreds of species of… Read More
Epistemology Domains and theories in science 19 Jun 201122 Jun 2018 We are getting to the tail end of this series. Here are the previous posts: The false analogy between species and art Pattern cladism and the myth of theory dependence of observation Species, phenomena and data More on phenomena Disambiguating the Theory-Dependence of Observation thesis (TDOT) In this post I… Read More
Actually, yes, I think it is clever. BTW, I recently got a copy of Pigliucci and Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem and was pleased to see your essay there. I started to read it first but, unfortunately, life has so far intervened to prevent me from finishing.
Okay. I set aside eating, drinking, peeing/defecating (on a toilet), sleeping and working. I am now thinner, thirstier, smellier, tireder and poorer but enlightened with the knowledge that, because of the boundaries of my circumstance and capacity, I am much less enlightened than I used to think I was. Ain’t philosophy grand?
Nice! What does the logo (I assume that’s the little spiky thing in the lower right corner of the cover) mean, or from what is it derived?