Roundup 3 Jan 2008 Some bloggable items not worth a post on their own: George MacDonald Fraser died. The author of the Flashman series, which I loved. Creating one of the best rogues in literature, Fraser also managed to get the history right. Peter Hare died. Hare was one of the leading moral philosophers of the 20th Century. Bradie and Harms have updated the excellent SEP entry on evolutionary epistemology. Godfrey-Smith and Sterelny have updated their excellent piece on biological information also in SEP. I missed this at the time (October). Evolution History
Evolution Carnivale! 2 Aug 2009 The Carnival of Evolution 14 is up at Quintessence of Dust. Go read some great articles. Read More
Evolution Tautology 1b: Butler 22 Aug 2009 So, upon further investigation I find that Samuel Butler, in his Evolution Old and New (1879) states the tautology argument clearly. Read More
Evolution More on the Fodor and Piatelli-Palmerini thing 21 Mar 2010 FAPP have replied to Ned Block’s and Phillip Kitcher’s critique in the Boston Review, showing that the interpretation I gave before is the right one: they really do think that because we cannot say without ambiguity, a priori, what it is that natural selection is selecting, and therefore there is… Read More