We have a domain name now 24 May 2009 I have bitten the bullet and paid the monies, so now this blog is accessible under the following domain name: evolvingthoughts.net Be sure to tell your friends and readers! Administrative
Administrative Off to the wilds of Oxfordshire 14 May 2010 So, tomorrow I fly to Oxford (well, to Heathrow, and bus to Oxford) to this conference on religion and toleration. It looks to be an interesting conference, and I am commenting on a paper by one of my favourite anthropologist/psychologists, Ara Norenzayan from UBC. It includes such luminaries as Amartya… Read More
Administrative Vale Chesh 30 Jan 200818 Sep 2017 For a long time, I thought that animals were pretty much as Descartes thought – largely unreasoning organic machines. This morning, my teacher on animal communications died. Her name was Chesh, and she was 17 and a half. She was a year younger than my eldest, and a year older… Read More
Administrative Update 18 Jun 2013 As readers may have noticed, I have been pretty inactive here lately. This is because I have been finishing a book and sending it off to the publishers, which was achieved about 8 hours ago. The book is titled The Nature of Classification, and it will come out from Palgrave Macmillan…. Read More
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[Spoken loudly] Once upon a time, in the salad days of talk.origins, when the likes of Richard Harter and Ken Cox were making their laconic/verbose/terse/witty contributions, when the simian form of Herb Huston haunted Ted Holden’s dreams, I said to myself “someday this Wilkins person will register an entire domain name to unto himself.” (… having just read 6000 had been newly registered with the new consortium.) And here, 18 effing years later, it haff come to pass. Wet us pway a pwayer of thanksgwiwing.