Renaissance mathematicus 6 Aug 2009 I know I’ve been busy for a while now, but that’s no excuse for not having made more of our blog-friend Thony Christie’s new blog, Renaissance Mathematicus. Which is a real pity as he’s been doing some interesting pieces on the history of science. Since I’m such a slacker, go read Thony for a bit. History
Epistemology Hume’s birthday 8 May 2011 So you may have noticed, David Hume turns 300 today. I reckon he looks a lot younger than that, almost modern. There’s an interesting discussion on the History of Philosophy of Science list about whether Hume is the greatest English language philosopher, as the Stanford article claims. Influence and importance… Read More
Evolution Is there a species rank? 8 Jun 200818 Sep 2017 The final of my comments on this topic (see one and two here) addresses the question whether or not there is a rank of species. Read More
History Aristotle on politics and religion 16 Feb 2010 “And further he [the tyrant] must be seen always to be exceptionally zealous as regards religious observances (for people are less afraid of suffering any illegal treatment from men of this sort, if they think that their ruler has religious scruples and pays regard to the gods, and also they… Read More
This is really embarrassing, a glowing recommendation from the Aussie Anthropoid and another one from Will Thomas at Ether Wave Propaganda both on the same day! It’s a conspiracy isn’t it? Now if I could just work out the evil intentions behind…