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
Metaphysics Why Hume was wrong 8 Sep 2010 I think that the Salmon-Dowe view deals nicely with dark room gunshots. Read More
Metaphysics Fundamentalist atheism? 27 Jul 2009 One of the more annoying claims some people make is that atheists are or can be fundamentalists. This is annoying for two reasons: one is that atheists rarely go out and picket funerals or insist on what people can do in their own bedrooms based on a literal reading of… Read More
Biology Are humans just animals? 2 Jul 20133 Jul 2013 Yesterday I heard on the radio a discussion by neuroscientist turned philosopher Raymond Tallis, who was arguing that humans are not just animals, and that consciousness is not just what happens in the brain. He went on at length about “Darwinitis”, a disease of intellectuals who wish to explain everything… Read More