Order “Understanding Species” now! 28 Feb 202328 Feb 2023 So US is due in April, and Cambridge just sent me the flyer below. Notice how cheap this book is! You can buy 50 for each of your intro to philosophy and history of biology students and still be able to buy end of semester beers! And if you order now, there’s even a discount code! I am getting a headache from all these exclamation marks!!! Seriously though, this is by far the most affordable book I am ever likely to write, and it is part of a killer series of similar books, under the general editorship of Kostas Kampourakis. Check the Understanding Life series out now. [embeddoc url=”https://evolvingthoughts.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781108987196_Understanding-Species_Flyer-copy.pdf”] Philosophy
Philosophy Philosophy TV 2 Sep 2010 We’ve had bloggingheads.tv, and wotnot, but now we have hit the motherload; the real thing! Philosophy TV! Not enough philosophy of science yet, but subscribe in the hope… Read More
Epistemology Was Darwin a philosopher? 12 May 2010 It is only fair that I apply the same standards to my saviour-figure that I apply to others (Paul Griffiths wants a t-shirt with the slogan “Darwin is my personal saviour”). In fact I published an essay asking whether Darwin was a historiographer, if not a historian (answer: yes). So… Read More
Epistemology Knowing things in semantic space 28 Feb 201328 Feb 2013 For those who know this stuff, this will be quite banal, but I recently gave it to a non-philosopher science grad, and she found it useful, so some of you might too. What is it to know something in a fallible world? A world where nobody (nobody who is talking… Read More