Substack book writing 8 Oct 20238 Oct 2023 So I am going to publish chapter drafts of a book I am writing on my Substack, and the first one is here. Bats are included. Cognition Philosophy
Metaphysics The nature of stochastic events in a block universe 26 Oct 201126 Oct 2011 Recently I had a paper accepted for Zygon in which I argued that God could create a universe with Darwinian accidents as a block universe. For those who have mercifully escaped the rigours and tribulations of the philosophy of time, a block universe is the entirety of the universe over… Read More
History The doctrine of double truth 8 Jun 2009 Somewhere on the internecks, I engaged in a discussion of the origins of the “double truth” theory. I wish I could find it again (let me know if you know), but I was asked where the doctrine arose. I have done a little digging, and this is a report on… Read More
Epistemology Peirce on Darwin (1877) 18 Aug 2009 The Darwinian controversy is, in large part, a question of logic. Mr. Darwin proposed to apply the statistical method to biology. The same thing had been done in a widely different branch of science, the theory of gases. Though unable to say what the movements of any particular molecule of… Read More