Since my mother worked, I would stop at the local library on my way home. I had until she got home about an hour and…
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Evolving Thoughts Posts
Published 5 Dec 2022
My Absent Career 1: The end of an error
So this month ends my likely last teaching contract. For the past two decades I have been sporadically teaching, first at Melbourne, then Queensland, then…
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Feet of clay problem
What to do with historical bastardry in our heroes? This is republished from my substack. Henceforth such posts – the equivalent of a magazine article…
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Species Problems and Beyond
In conjunction with Frank Zachos from the Natural History Museum Vienna, and Igor Pavlinov of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow (both mammalogists) I have…
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Aaannnddd we’re back!
Changing hosts should not cause major stress headaches, but there it is… Anyway, after a two week delay, ET is back.
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Published 28 Apr 2022
Account/Cause
aitia culpability, criminal responsibility, cause Aristotle sets out four things responsible for changes: “On the question “why” with respect to any process of generation or…
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Published 27 Apr 2022
Operative concepts
Gave a talk “The Good Species” yesterday (26 April 2022) to the HPS crowd at UniMelb. The discussion went a way I didn’t expect: classification…
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Published 25 Apr 2022
Being
Ousia Liddell and Scott: property; (philosophy) being, essence, reality. That which is one’s own, one’s property. Substance, as in “a man of substance”. In philosophy,…
Comments closed Published 21 Feb 2022
Greek words used in classical philosophy
I prepared this for an undergraduate class last year. I’m putting it up under the Creative Commons license here for people to use. If you…
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