Yet Another Philosophy of Science Blog… 19 Mar 2009 But this one’s going to be huge. The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science has a new group blog. [How do I know? I set it up.] It will act as a clearing house for events and ideas at what has become a very large concentration of HPS types in one city (even as HPS declines elsewhere in Australia). So add it to your feed, and if you live in the city of Sydney, get the Calendar synced with your scheduler of choice and come to events. Uncategorized
Uncategorized Blogging the history of science 11 Aug 20084 Oct 2017 A chance link to my blog has led me through an ego search to find Will Thomas’ most excellent Ether Wave Propaganda blog. Will is a historian of science post-doc, I think, and he has an engaging style. Coincidentally, John Lynch lists various links to history of science, including a… Read More
Uncategorized Judging experiments 30 Dec 200718 Sep 2017 This is a field in which I am largely ignorant, so I will just report it and leave the commenters to interpret. Collider blog has a discussion of an idea reported by Charm &c. in a paper at arXiv by Bruce Knudsen, proposing that experiments should be assessed using Shannon… Read More
Uncategorized Peter Lipton has died 26 Nov 2007 Brian Leiter is reporting, and the University of Cambridge confirms it, that Peter Lipton, a well known philosopher of science, has died. Leiter will put up an obit later. For now, here is a very good paper of Lipton’s explaining philosophy of science to scientists. Read More
Concerning your post on the Descended from Darwin volume, it should be the American Philosophical Society http://www.amphilsoc.org/, not the American Philosphical Association. No connection between the two.