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EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Those who spend their days obsessively noting every little change in blog designs will note that I have added a big red "P" at the bottom left. This links to the Philosophy Campaign - an attempt to make philosophy more relevant to modern society. So I got to EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Figure 1: Woodcut frontispiece of John Ray, 1693, from Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis, source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Life . John Ray (1627/8–1705, known as Wray until 1670) was an English clergyman whose work in natural history led to the modern scheme of the classification of species.Born of a blacksmith and his pious wife at Black EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Human reasoning is not simple, neat, and impeccable. It is not akin to a proof in logic. Instead, it draws no clear distinction between deduction, induction, and abduction, because it tends to exploit what we know. Reasoning is more a simulation of the world fleshed out with all our relevant knowledge than a formal manipulation EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Evolving Thoughts Blog. The wealthy are often sociopathic. Why? Published 15 Aug 2018 by John S. Wilkins. Last updated on 27 Feb 2019. I have been encountering, in these days of political “incorrectness” (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Psychologist Daniel Gilbert once wrote on the unwritten vow taken by psychologists: Few people realise that psychologists also take a vow, promising that at some point in their professional lives they will publish a book, a chapter or at least an article that contains the sentence: ‘The human being is the only animal that’ EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG 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 EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS Thoughts on the Hard Problem. Most of you will already know that David Chalmers, the once-hirsute Australian philosopher of mind (only Rob Wilson seems to remain in the Hirsute Philosopher’s. Continue reading. Thoughts on the Hard Problem. MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Those who spend their days obsessively noting every little change in blog designs will note that I have added a big red "P" at the bottom left. This links to the Philosophy Campaign - an attempt to make philosophy more relevant to modern society. So I got to EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Figure 1: Woodcut frontispiece of John Ray, 1693, from Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis, source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Life . John Ray (1627/8–1705, known as Wray until 1670) was an English clergyman whose work in natural history led to the modern scheme of the classification of species.Born of a blacksmith and his pious wife at Black EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Human reasoning is not simple, neat, and impeccable. It is not akin to a proof in logic. Instead, it draws no clear distinction between deduction, induction, and abduction, because it tends to exploit what we know. Reasoning is more a simulation of the world fleshed out with all our relevant knowledge than a formal manipulation EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Evolving Thoughts Blog. The wealthy are often sociopathic. Why? Published 15 Aug 2018 by John S. Wilkins. Last updated on 27 Feb 2019. I have been encountering, in these days of political “incorrectness” (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Psychologist Daniel Gilbert once wrote on the unwritten vow taken by psychologists: Few people realise that psychologists also take a vow, promising that at some point in their professional lives they will publish a book, a chapter or at least an article that contains the sentence: ‘The human being is the only animal that’ EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG 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 EVOLVING THOUGHTS THEMES This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam oroffensive to all.
QUOTES – EVOLVING THOUGHTS Quotes I find in various sources as I trawl for ideas to steal. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE MORALISTS 3: CLADES AND GRADES Last updated on 22 Jun 2018 . Rise of the Planet of the Moralists Series 1: Introduction 2: Chains and Trees 3: Clades and grades 4: Predicting traits 5: Social dominance and power Note: My researchers readers have inundated provided me with all kinds of interesting references (hi Jeb and Jocelyn). One that is particularly interesting is this book.It appears to make many of the points I’m EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Psychologist Daniel Gilbert once wrote on the unwritten vow taken by psychologists: Few people realise that psychologists also take a vow, promising that at some point in their professional lives they will publish a book, a chapter or at least an article that contains the sentence: ‘The human being is the only animal that’ EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Beneath the fold, I have stolen some text that lists 12 principles that make intellectual argument possible. In turn, this list was taken from Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments by Edward T. Damer, which was recommended in comments by G. Felis. I have added in italics my own comments interspersing the EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Let us, then, take the idea of a spectrum of probabilities seriously, and place human judgements about the existence of God along it, between two extremes of opposite certainty. The spectrum is continuous, but it can be represented by the following seven milestones along the way. 1 Strong theist. 100 per cent probability ofGod.
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JULY 2008 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during July 2008. Lately there has been a rediscovery on the blogia of C. P. Snow’s Two Cultures – which initially was the divide between those who understood the Second Law of Thermodynamics and those who don’t, but is now, it appears, between those who know math and those who don’t, and the respective attitudes. EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS Thoughts on the Hard Problem. Most of you will already know that David Chalmers, the once-hirsute Australian philosopher of mind (only Rob Wilson seems to remain in the Hirsute Philosopher’s. Continue reading. Thoughts on the Hard Problem. EVOLVING THOUGHTS WELCOME TO EVOLVING THOUGHTS Click on the Menu to contact me, find out more about me or add to the Tip Jar. Especially to add to the Tip Jar. Welcome to my blog and website. This is where whatever passes through my forebrain in sufficient coherence gets put, as an aide memoir. It is unedited, unchecked and unneeded. I reserve the MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG The term ontological fallacy has great currency in social philosophy, where it is used to denote the mistake of assuming that because there is a term for something, like a social institution, that the object it denotes really exists. A similar couple of fallacies are Whitehead's "Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness", in his Science and the EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG 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 EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOGSEE MORE ON EVOLVINGTHOUGHTS.NET EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS Thoughts on the Hard Problem. Most of you will already know that David Chalmers, the once-hirsute Australian philosopher of mind (only Rob Wilson seems to remain in the Hirsute Philosopher’s. Continue reading. Thoughts on the Hard Problem. EVOLVING THOUGHTS WELCOME TO EVOLVING THOUGHTS Click on the Menu to contact me, find out more about me or add to the Tip Jar. Especially to add to the Tip Jar. Welcome to my blog and website. This is where whatever passes through my forebrain in sufficient coherence gets put, as an aide memoir. It is unedited, unchecked and unneeded. I reserve the MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG The term ontological fallacy has great currency in social philosophy, where it is used to denote the mistake of assuming that because there is a term for something, like a social institution, that the object it denotes really exists. A similar couple of fallacies are Whitehead's "Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness", in his Science and the EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG 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 EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOGSEE MORE ON EVOLVINGTHOUGHTS.NET EVOLVING THOUGHTS WELCOME TO EVOLVING THOUGHTS Click on the Menu to contact me, find out more about me or add to the Tip Jar. Especially to add to the Tip Jar. Welcome to my blog and website. This is where whatever passes through my forebrain in sufficient coherence gets put, as an aide memoir. It is unedited, unchecked and unneeded. I reserve the ABOUT - EVOLVING THOUGHTS About. I am an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. I’m a mature-aged but late PhD’d (2004) historian and philosopher of science. My thesis issued in a couple of books and I’ve published a couple more since. I also publish academic papers and do casual EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam oroffensive to all.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of Paul Ewald’s book Evolution of infectious disease (1994). Ewald begins with the question of whether parasites and pathogens evolve towards commensuality (the state of being mutually beneficial, which is what, among others, Macfarlane Burnet thought, along with many immunologists and epidemiologists. Ewald points out that this need not be MARCH 2020 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 1 post published by John S. Wilkins during March 2020. Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of Paul Ewald’s book Evolution of infectiousdisease (1994).
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Beneath the fold, I have stolen some text that lists 12 principles that make intellectual argument possible. In turn, this list was taken from Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments by Edward T. Damer, which was recommended in comments by G. Felis. I have added in italics my own comments interspersing theFEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Psychologist Daniel Gilbert once wrote on the unwritten vow taken by psychologists: Few people realise that psychologists also take a vow, promising that at some point in their professional lives they will publish a book, a chapter or at least an article that contains the sentence: ‘The human being is the only animal that’ EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG The tautology problem. Published 20 Aug 2009 by John S. Wilkins. A long time ago I wrote a not particularly good piece on the tautology problem: that natural selection is merely circular definition. I was just out of being an undergraduate when it was published, so it was at best an undergraduate piece. I have been unsatisfied with it eversince.
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EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Human reasoning is not simple, neat, and impeccable. It is not akin to a proof in logic. Instead, it draws no clear distinction between deduction, induction, and abduction, because it tends to exploit what we know. Reasoning is more a simulation of the world fleshed out with all our relevant knowledge than a formal manipulation EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Evolving Thoughts Blog. The wealthy are often sociopathic. Why? Published 15 Aug 2018 by John S. Wilkins. Last updated on 27 Feb 2019. I have been encountering, in these days of political “incorrectness” (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG 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 EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS Thoughts on the Hard Problem. Most of you will already know that David Chalmers, the once-hirsute Australian philosopher of mind (only Rob Wilson seems to remain in the Hirsute Philosopher’s. Continue reading. Thoughts on the Hard Problem. QUOTES – EVOLVING THOUGHTS Quotes I find in various sources as I trawl for ideas to steal. MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Human reasoning is not simple, neat, and impeccable. It is not akin to a proof in logic. Instead, it draws no clear distinction between deduction, induction, and abduction, because it tends to exploit what we know. Reasoning is more a simulation of the world fleshed out with all our relevant knowledge than a formal manipulation EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Evolving Thoughts Blog. The wealthy are often sociopathic. Why? Published 15 Aug 2018 by John S. Wilkins. Last updated on 27 Feb 2019. I have been encountering, in these days of political “incorrectness” (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG 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 EVOLVING THOUGHTS WELCOME TO EVOLVING THOUGHTS Click on the Menu to contact me, find out more about me or add to the Tip Jar. Especially to add to the Tip Jar. Welcome to my blog and website. This is where whatever passes through my forebrain in sufficient coherence gets put, as an aide memoir. It is unedited, unchecked and unneeded. I reserve the EVOLVING THOUGHTS THEMES This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam oroffensive to all.
QUOTES – EVOLVING THOUGHTS Quotes I find in various sources as I trawl for ideas to steal. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me.FEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Psychologist Daniel Gilbert once wrote on the unwritten vow taken by psychologists: Few people realise that psychologists also take a vow, promising that at some point in their professional lives they will publish a book, a chapter or at least an article that contains the sentence: ‘The human being is the only animal that’ EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Beneath the fold, I have stolen some text that lists 12 principles that make intellectual argument possible. In turn, this list was taken from Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments by Edward T. Damer, which was recommended in comments by G. Felis. I have added in italics my own comments interspersing theOCTOBER 2011
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EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG I have often addressed the distinction between atheism and agnosticism but I haven't said a lot about what agnosticism involves, apart from it being a suspension of judgement about belief claims. So a few remarks are in order, prompted (but probably misreading) a recent paper by Jane Friedman, "Rational Agnosticism and Degrees of Belief",forthcoming
EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS The only diagram in the Origin is famously the hypothetical series of species forming a tree structure, but it isn’t an actual classification based on his MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG I have been encountering, in these days of political "incorrectness" (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless people (literally) to failing to give way when you drive a Korean car and they a European one (or some varieties of Japanese). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Figure 1: Woodcut frontispiece of John Ray, 1693, from Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis, source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Life . John Ray (1627/8–1705, known as Wray until 1670) was an English clergyman whose work in natural history led to the modern scheme of the classification of species.Born of a blacksmith and his pious wife at Black EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me.FEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object aboutDECEMBER 2012
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during December 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS The only diagram in the Origin is famously the hypothetical series of species forming a tree structure, but it isn’t an actual classification based on his MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG I have been encountering, in these days of political "incorrectness" (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless people (literally) to failing to give way when you drive a Korean car and they a European one (or some varieties of Japanese). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Figure 1: Woodcut frontispiece of John Ray, 1693, from Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis, source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Life . John Ray (1627/8–1705, known as Wray until 1670) was an English clergyman whose work in natural history led to the modern scheme of the classification of species.Born of a blacksmith and his pious wife at Black EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me.FEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object aboutDECEMBER 2012
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during December 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS WELCOME TO EVOLVING THOUGHTS Click on the Menu to contact me, find out more about me or add to the Tip Jar. Especially to add to the Tip Jar. Welcome to my blog and website. This is where whatever passes through my forebrain in sufficient coherence gets put, as an aide memoir. It is unedited, unchecked and unneeded. I reserve theFEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG The term ontological fallacy has great currency in social philosophy, where it is used to denote the mistake of assuming that because there is a term for something, like a social institution, that the object it denotes really exists. A similar couple of fallacies are Whitehead's "Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness", in his Science and theAUGUST 2012
9 posts published by John S. Wilkins during August 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete anyNOVEMBER 2007
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during November 2007. This paragraph: . This shared failing is no surprise, because the very notion of physical law is a theological one in the first place, a fact that makes many scientists squirm.DECEMBER 2012
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during December 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
APRIL 2012 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 8 posts published by John S. Wilkins during April 2012 JUNE 2007 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS A new paper in New Mexico Geology has the following rather tendentious title: . Fassett, J.E. 2007. The documentation of in-place dinosaur fossils in the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Animas Formation in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado mandates a paradigm shift: dinosaurs can no longer be thought of as absolute index fossils for end-Cretaceous strata in the Western Interior JULY 2007 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during July 2007. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
JULY 2008 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during July 2008. Lately there has been a rediscovery on the blogia of C. P. Snow’s Two Cultures – which initially was the divide between those who understood the Second Law of Thermodynamics and those who don’t, but is now, it appears, between those who know math and those who don’t, and the respective attitudes. EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS The only diagram in the Origin is famously the hypothetical series of species forming a tree structure, but it isn’t an actual classification based on his MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG I have been encountering, in these days of political "incorrectness" (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless people (literally) to failing to give way when you drive a Korean car and they a European one (or some varieties of Japanese). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Figure 1: Woodcut frontispiece of John Ray, 1693, from Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis, source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Life . John Ray (1627/8–1705, known as Wray until 1670) was an English clergyman whose work in natural history led to the modern scheme of the classification of species.Born of a blacksmith and his pious wife at Black EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me.FEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object aboutDECEMBER 2012
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during December 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS HOME PAGEWELCOMEABOUTTIP JARBLOGROLLTHEMESPUBLICATIONS The only diagram in the Origin is famously the hypothetical series of species forming a tree structure, but it isn’t an actual classification based on his MARCH 2021 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 2 posts published by John S. Wilkins during March 2021. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG I have been encountering, in these days of political "incorrectness" (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless people (literally) to failing to give way when you drive a Korean car and they a European one (or some varieties of Japanese). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Figure 1: Woodcut frontispiece of John Ray, 1693, from Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis, source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Life . John Ray (1627/8–1705, known as Wray until 1670) was an English clergyman whose work in natural history led to the modern scheme of the classification of species.Born of a blacksmith and his pious wife at Black EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG From time to time, scientists with whom I engage (I know a lot of scientists, they being my study organisms) ask me what philosophy is.In fact they don’t ask me so much as aggressively assert that really, philosophy is just science, only without the facts, research or investigation. Jokes about erasers and trashcans often surface, again (and again, and again). EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG So asks this essay and gets the whole thing wrong. Darwin’s theories (plural) are not controversial because they imply that species are mutable. This was a widely held view by preachers, moralists, Aristotelians, naturalists, breeders, formalists, folk biology, and even biblical translators. Darwin was not controversial because he implied racist ideas about humans. EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG For many years, I have been very hesitant to speak about race. I’m white (a stupid social construction in itself), male and middle class. Every time I make a comment, in come the critics, attacking me on everything from my own group identity (which, by the way, I do not adopt; being on the spectrum, I never saw people as anything but either nice to me or nasty to me.FEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG Arthur Stanley Eddington was an Englishman, a physicist, a pacifist and a clever writer: I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object aboutDECEMBER 2012
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during December 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
EVOLVING THOUGHTS WELCOME TO EVOLVING THOUGHTS Click on the Menu to contact me, find out more about me or add to the Tip Jar. Especially to add to the Tip Jar. Welcome to my blog and website. This is where whatever passes through my forebrain in sufficient coherence gets put, as an aide memoir. It is unedited, unchecked and unneeded. I reserve theFEBRUARY 2012
6 posts published by John S. Wilkins during February 2012. There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike.It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were EVOLVING THOUGHTS BLOG The term ontological fallacy has great currency in social philosophy, where it is used to denote the mistake of assuming that because there is a term for something, like a social institution, that the object it denotes really exists. A similar couple of fallacies are Whitehead's "Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness", in his Science and theAUGUST 2012
9 posts published by John S. Wilkins during August 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete anyNOVEMBER 2007
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during November 2007. This paragraph: . This shared failing is no surprise, because the very notion of physical law is a theological one in the first place, a fact that makes many scientists squirm.DECEMBER 2012
10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during December 2012. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
APRIL 2012 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 8 posts published by John S. Wilkins during April 2012 JUNE 2007 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS A new paper in New Mexico Geology has the following rather tendentious title: . Fassett, J.E. 2007. The documentation of in-place dinosaur fossils in the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Animas Formation in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado mandates a paradigm shift: dinosaurs can no longer be thought of as absolute index fossils for end-Cretaceous strata in the Western Interior JULY 2007 – EVOLVING THOUGHTS 10 posts published by John S. Wilkins during July 2007. This is my living room, so don't piss on the floor. I reserve the right to block users and delete any comments that are uncivil, spam or offensive toall.
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