The ecological equivalent of Evolving Thoughts 29 Oct 201129 Oct 2011 I have been casting my beadies over this blog, Oikos Blog, which looks to take a critical and philosophical eye to ecology. It appears to have some careful and deep critics on it, and what is more, at least one of them likes Evolving Thoughts. What better recommendation? Ecology and Biodiversity Philosophy
Evolution Going backwards, or, devolution? 29 Sep 2009 Carl Zimmer has another one of his excellent summary articles, this time about the problems encountered by a research group that tried to make a protein that had evolved into one form, evolve back to the starting point. This is being touted as a molecular version of “Dollo’s Law” (which is… Read More
Academe My Absent Career 12: The aged aged man 6 Jan 20236 Jan 2023 Suddenly I was out of work, I could not rejoin the postdoc, and I had to move to Sydney once again, to see if I could find anything. I did do some teaching at UNSW, but that was about it. I was in dire straits. And the Straits of Dire… Read More
History Reminiscences of one who was there 12 Apr 2010 Early on, when I thought I would be an intellectual, a dilettante but still an intellectual, at the age of 17 or so, I read several books that I found at a second hand bookstore (my usual place of recreation). One was a little volume called Critique of Pure Tolerance,… Read More
Thanks for the shout-out! I’m sincerely flattered that a proper philosopher would find the Oikos Blog careful and deep. 😉
Proper philosopher? [Looks around] Where? Thanks for the intro post below. I will be reading all the posts when I get time. Just read the r/K post and finally understand why I have always been uncomfortable about it (it is all in the interpretation of the variables, yes).
I now have a post up with some recommendations for folks coming over to the Oikos blog from Evolving Thoughts: http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/recommendations-for-new-readers-arriving-from-evolving-thoughts/