Podblack Cat 8 May 2008 … is a blogger on the paranormal and skeptical stuff. She has some nice posts on Women and superstition (parts one and two) and Skeptical Books for Children (parts one, two, three and four). Go check them and her out. General Science Social evolution
Evolution Does religion evolve? 2 Feb 2008 Here’s a comment that represents a widely held misconception about the evolution of religion: Whenever there is an discussion about religions and changes in religions someone always pulls out the argument that religions evolve. I am very sorry but I believe that applying the concept of evolution to religion is… Read More
Book My species definitions reader is accepted for publication 15 Aug 2007 I have a book forthcoming, Species definitions: a sourcebook from antiquity to today, which gives and commentates definitions of “species” in logic and biology for 2,500 years, from Plato to Templeton and beyond. It’s designed as a reader for scholars to see how the notion[s] have evolved separately in the… Read More
History Google Books, the last, worst, library? 30 Aug 2009 Geoff Nunberg over at Language Log gets stuck, justifiably, into the incredibly bad classification of books being scanned at Google Books. Give that this is, as he says, the likely last ever scan of all pre-electronic, pre-Mickey Mouse Amendment copyright, books, it means we have given up good libraries for… Read More
Cuttlefish, OM reads your blog! You have hit the big time. There has to be a Philosophers Epic that Cuttlefish can put into verse for you.
Cuttlefish, OM reads your blog! You have hit the big time. There has to be a Philosophers Epic that Cuttlefish can put into verse for you.
Okay – Digital Cuttlefish – who has read my blog from the start – HAS just written a poem for me! Waitaminute – this was written last year and they only wrote a poem for me now. Gah, I am no muse! 🙁 BUT I am horrified to only discover this post, today! So, I guess it’s a belated Valentine’s day present. Big smoochy kisses to John Wilkins and please, come along to the next Australian Skeptics conference! 🙂