Travel Diary 12: Berkeley 5 Nov 2009 Today I had the pleasure of meeting my editor, Chuck Crumly, of University of California Press, who noted that my book is now an e-book. And cheaper than the printed version, too. Chuck, to no surprise from me, is an erudite and enthusiastic science fan, and Yet Another Nice Guy, as I seem fated to find everywhere I go. Tonight I’m dropping by NCSE to say hi. Administrative Book Species concept
Book Unscientific America 17 Jul 2009 I can’t yet speak about this book, because my review copy is presently on what passes as Australia’s international mail service, which involves yaks hiking across the Himalayas and then taking the parcels via the Silk Road to Beijing, where they will be brought to northern Australia by junks, and… Read More
Epistemology Similarity 4 Sep 2010 Brandon in a comment to the last post in this series mentioned this text of Plato: Well, at any rate, he said, justice has some resemblance to holiness; for anything in the world has some sort of resemblance to any other thing. Thus there is a point in which white… Read More
Biology David Hull’s philosophy 12 Aug 2010 David Hull was one of the first graduates from the University of Indiana’s HPS program. During that program he attended a seminar with Karl Popper in the course of which he wrote a paper on essentialism in biology. Popper took it upon himself to send this, without telling Hull, to… Read More