Researchers teach gorilla existential angst 31 Mar 2010 I love The Onion. They even get the species right. Ethics and Moral Philosophy Humor Metaphysics Philosophy Species and systematics
Administrative A mild apology 29 Nov 2008 I haven’t done much philosophical blogging lately. There are Reasons. I’m preparing to move to Sydney over the next few months (and there may be a period in which I have no laptop too), and trying to catch up on a bunch of projects I have in play and which… Read More
Evolution Other adaptive landscape papers 8 Aug 2008 Having blown my own trumpet, I should mention that there are a few other articles in the same edition of Biology and Philosophy (which I hadn’t seen until now) on Gavrilets’ view of adaptive landscapes now on Online First: Massimo Pigliucci has a very nice historical summary of Sewall Wright’s… Read More
Evolution The trashcan categorial 20 Nov 2008 I’m introducing a new category – the Trashcan. This is a term used in systematics to identify a group that comprises “everything else” once you have done the identification of the real groups of some taxonomic grouping. I will be using the Trashcan to group together all and only those… Read More