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 New entry on Mach in Stanford Encyclopedia 21 May 2008 Ernst Mach is one of the more interesting of the nineteenth century polymaths. A physicist, he also kicked off positivism, and (I did not previously know) was an evolutionary epistemologist: Mach is part of the empiricist tradition, but he also believed in an a priori. But it is a biologized… Read More
Uncategorized Marjorie Grene dies 17 Mar 200918 Sep 2017 Marjorie Grene was a doyen of philosophy and history of biology, and I reviewed one of her last texts a while back and linked to an interview. She died yesterday, according to Leiter, aged 99. Read More
Uncategorized Sterelny wins Nicod Prize 3 Sep 200818 Sep 2017 Sometimes it’s so cool to know smart people, so you can congratulate them when they win awards. Go Kimbo! Hat tip Leiter. 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.