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 Descartes before the horse – does information exist? 8 Mar 201122 Jun 2018 I have been kind of busy with actual, you know, work, which is ironic because I do not actually have, you know, employment. But I am teaching. Anyway this is by way of being an apology and apologia for not having posted lately. Be assured much Wilkinsy goodness is being… Read More
Epistemology Naturalism and investigating the unnatural 21 Sep 201118 Sep 2017 Recently, Tim Williamson attacked what is known in the philosophical community as naturalism in a blog at the New York Times. A rejoinder by Alex Rosenberg defended it. Williamson’s argument is that the idea of naturalism – that we can somehow reduce all properties and things to physical things through… Read More
Book Stephen Hawking and the creation of the universe 4 Sep 201024 Nov 2022 I should begin by saying that I haven’t read Hawking’s book with Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, and I probably won’t. But the way it is being hyped in the media, social and mainstream, suggests that what he is claiming, which is nothing novel, is that we have finally done… Read More