Second book cover 9 Jul 200922 Jun 2018 From Peter Lang publishers, due this year (soon, I hope!). Order yours now! Administrative Book History Philosophy Species concept
Administrative Whewell’s Ghost, a HPS blog 7 Sep 2010 In conjunction with John Lynch and Rebekah Higgit, a new blog has been launched for history and philosophy of science posts, entitled Whewell’s Ghost. Rebekah and I have kicked it off with a couple of posts. Anyone may contribute to this, on the history and philosophy of any aspect of… Read More
Cognition Analytic thinking, religion and science – the rhetoric and the psychology 5 May 20125 May 2012 Over the past few decades there has been an increasingly large literature on styles of thinking and cognitive biases (to which I am grateful to Jocelyn Stoller, a reader of this blog, for introducing me) in psychology, culminating in the marvellous book, which I recommend to everyone, by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity The first use of a taxonomic tree 10 Apr 2009 Older histories of biology are often full of useful and interesting facts. One of my all-time favourites is Eric Nordenskiöld’s history, but I came across an earlier one by Louis Compton Miall in which I found this text: Bonnet in 1745 traced the scale of nature in fuller detail than… Read More
Not so far as I have heard. Why don’t you contact them and ask (it will make more sense than if I do it).
From a purely aesthetic perspective, the cover looks rather barren. I would suggest that a well-placed photograph of the Starship Enterprise would improve it no end.
I will be buying it, oh yes I will. And there will be reading, you can’t stop me! Ha ha ha haaaa! Oh wait…is this really appropriate event for moustache twirling and evil laughter? When’s the other book out? Louis
Oh and one further thing, Wilkins, what the hell is that little smiley face gif towards the top right of the page, about 3 or 4 cm (at my screen resolution) to the right of the word “donate” actually for? Is it some subtle mind manipulation, trying to make me happier, well I’m not falling for it, see. Underhanded subliminal happiness is wicked. What next? Subliminal messages in your posts? Oh the huge manatee! Louis
Actually I ordered a copy just after donating a smallish amount to this blog. The site said the book would be available in fall, and I imagined it would just show up in the mail sometime late 2009. Imagine my surprise when a month later I received mail from the bookseller (some university thingading, I forget), with a copy of the book! – nah not the book, but a receipt informing me that the book was not in stock an could not be delivered! I actually haven’t checked yet if my order is still active.