Ethics and Moral Philosophy Morality and Evolution 3: Apes and populations 4 May 201422 May 2014 [Morality and Evolution 1 2 3 4 5 6 7] Humans are apes, evolutionarily speaking. That is, while we are named distinctly in the vernacular usage from the rest of the apes (chimp, bonobo, gorilla, orang-utan, gibbons x 2), we fall squarely within the great ape clade. As such, we might expect that we share with… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Virus-like particles a wasp’s way of making more wasps 19 Mar 2009 If I may interrupt the politics for a bit with a sciencey note, I strongly recommend reading this blog post at Small Things Considered (the go-to site for all things microbial and smaller): parasitoid wasps insert viral-like particles, or VLPs, into the host caterpillars in which they lay their eggs…. Read More
Book Scientist’s Operating Manual – Introduction 30 Sep 2010 If you open any number of science textbooks, introductions to the philosophy of science, or books that attack pseudoscience, you will find a discussion of What The Scientific Method Is. For it is assumed from the start that either there is a scientific method, or that there is not and… Read More
My copy of THE BOOK arrived today. Now if I’d known it was on sale already.. Given what you philosophers get up to on other threads however (NP? Lowenheim paradox?), how much will I take in, I wonder. But nothing venture… (Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick but water’s thin. In for a penny, in for a pound, It’s love that makes the world go round. WS Gilbert) Sorry, the second glass of wine and a liberal ingestion of red dust has strange effects…
It’s OK, I don’t do any serious metaphysics in that book. You can read it for enjoyment. I thought Sydney had just reacted to my spring cleaning.