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… Philosophy Philosophy
Creationism and Intelligent Design Closet Darwinism, and definitions 12 Apr 201412 Apr 2014 Every so often, somebody makes the case that “Darwinism”, “Darwinist” and “Darwinian”, being the generic noun, the individual term, and the adjective of Darwin’s name and therefore (supposedly) theory, are dead terms that cause nothing but harm (see Scott and Branch 2009). Larry Moran has just made this very argument,… Read More
Biology Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 2: chains and trees 18 Oct 201122 Jun 2018 Rise of the Planet of the Moralists Series1: Introduction2: Chains and Trees 3: Clades and grades4: Predicting traits5: Social dominance and power Very famously, Darwin came up with the idea of the evolutionary tree. What is not often realized is that it is the tree that is more uniquely Darwin’s than natural selection, for which… Read More
Epistemology Once more into the fray, dear agnostics 27 Nov 201122 Jun 2018 I like Larry Moran. More than any other scientist, he has educated me on the standard (and occasionally nonstandard) theories of evolution, biochemistry (of which I know little, but what I do know is largely due to him), and even a bit of other stuff like information theory (he won’t… Read More
John, The philosophy of science is coming. We haven’t recorded yet, but the following have agreed to do episodes: Sober, PGS, Mitchell, Okasha, Griffths, and Neander. And that is just for the upcoming phil bio. It’ll take a bit to get those recorded (still sorting out topics). There are also a range of formal epistemology/phil science people and mind/cog sci people in the pipe. Thanks for the plug!
It seems to be interesting. I have been thinking about doing it as-well, but then in a more cozy atmosphere.