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I am the Holy Profit of Chocolatism, which is not a religion (okay, it has a deity). It is being worked up into a philosophical series of revelations and intuitions, entitled Chocosophy. I may one day publish this.

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February 19, 2015: The place of religion in democratic secular countries
February 2, 2015: We're back!
January 31, 2015: Evolving Thoughts may close soon
October 18, 2014: A nineteenth century view on classification
October 11, 2014: Is Physicalism coherent?
October 6, 2014: Is physicalism an impoverished metaphysics?
September 25, 2014: On tribalism
September 15, 2014: Even more videos by Adam Ford
September 13, 2014: Time for a predictable, just and independent surveyor of government and politics
August 17, 2014: Some more videos
August 16, 2014: The Muslima problem in atheism
August 13, 2014: Wilkins on demarcation
August 12, 2014: Wilkins on philosophy of science
July 15, 2014: Genes - the language of God 6: Theological implications
July 15, 2014: Genes - the language of God 5: God and genes
June 19, 2014: Genes - the language of God 4: Why genes aren’t a language
June 16, 2014: Genes - the language of God 3: Why genes aren’t information
June 9, 2014: Genes - the language of God 2: Other popular gene myths and metaphors
June 7, 2014: Genes - the language of God 1: Genes as Language
June 4, 2014: Genes - the language of God 0: Preface
June 3, 2014: An unjust government
June 1, 2014: Philosophical works that inspired me
May 26, 2014: Begging that damned question
May 22, 2014: Morality and Evolution 7: Conclusion
May 21, 2014: Morality and Evolution 6: Moral dispositions
May 20, 2014: Morality and Evolution 5: biology and culture
May 19, 2014: Morality and evolution 4: Is morality fitness-enhancing?
May 17, 2014: David Armstrong dies
May 15, 2014: Why do physicists hate philosophy?
May 6, 2014: Trying out a new theme
May 5, 2014: Speciation - a brief history: The eighteenth century evolutionist Lamarck
May 5, 2014: Darwinism results
May 4, 2014: Morality and Evolution 3: Apes and populations
May 1, 2014: Morality and evolution 2: Moral facts
April 29, 2014: Morality and Evolution 1: The Milvian Bridge
April 27, 2014: Information is the new Aristotelianism (and Dawkins is a hylomorphist)
April 15, 2014: Book review: Understanding Evolution
April 14, 2014: Survey: What does "Darwinism" mean?
April 12, 2014: Closet Darwinism, and definitions
April 8, 2014: When we went wrong
April 5, 2014: Speciation - A brief history: The late eighteenth century
April 1, 2014: Speciation - a brief history: Linnaeus
March 29, 2014: The origins of "speciation"
March 27, 2014: Accommodating Science: Neurobiology and the mind 1
March 27, 2014: Are political parties the problem not the solution?
March 17, 2014: Bastardry: On protest and on fascism
March 13, 2014: Accommodating Science overview
March 13, 2014: Rant: Old people
March 10, 2014: Accommodating Science: the backfire effect, and conclusion
March 7, 2014: Accommodating science: Strategy
March 5, 2014: Accommodating science: Faith and reason
March 2, 2014: Accommodating science: Evolution and change
February 27, 2014: Accommodating science: Geology and Time
February 27, 2014: Accommodating science: Astronomy
February 26, 2014: Religion is mental?
February 25, 2014: Carroll v. Craig - a telling comment
February 23, 2014: Accommodating Science: Unpicking the arguments
February 20, 2014: Accommodating Science: What is the problem?
February 15, 2014: Undefining religion
February 12, 2014: Can Religion Accommodate Science?
February 8, 2014: Degrees of religion
February 6, 2014: Books I am reading/reviewing
February 2, 2014: Science outreach: A conversation
January 30, 2014: How to argue with silly thing believers
January 29, 2014: The "developmental hypothesis" of belief acquisition
January 28, 2014: Why do believers believe THOSE silly things?
January 26, 2014: Why do believers believe silly things? The function of denialism
January 23, 2014: The discrimination of the age
January 23, 2014: Natural classification
January 19, 2014: The problem with logic
January 11, 2014: Does life exist?
January 5, 2014: Some of the best of the New Yorker's cartoons
January 2, 2014: What is "nature"?
January 2, 2014: Happy new year and Carnival of Evolution
December 30, 2013: How to review books, quickly and informatively
December 1, 2013: The Day of the Doctor of Evolution: CoE #66
December 1, 2013: My book is published
November 23, 2013: And now for something not entirely different
November 23, 2013: Why anti science?
November 16, 2013: AAHPSSS site now up
November 11, 2013: NSW removes protection for marine parks
November 9, 2013: The origin of "intelligent design" in the 18th and 19th centuries
October 27, 2013: Are species theoretical objects?
October 22, 2013: Articles of faith: The theological and philosophical origins of the concept of species
October 17, 2013: On knowing the rules
October 9, 2013: Henry Gee's book "The Accidental Species"
October 7, 2013: Are emotions 2D?
September 26, 2013: Will brains be downloaded? Of course not!
September 4, 2013: Ooh! Shiny!
September 4, 2013: Is history a science? Creationists don't think so
August 14, 2013: Are smarter people irreligious or just nonconformists?
August 3, 2013: How to solve corporate tax evasion
July 20, 2013: Finding the narrative
July 12, 2013: Scientists and history
July 11, 2013: Humans are the only animals that...
July 2, 2013: Are humans just animals?
June 29, 2013: Jobs for Philosophers and PhilJobs to merge!
June 18, 2013: Update
June 6, 2013: 100 days to the Australian federal election *sigh*
May 24, 2013: That concludes the God and Evolution Series
May 24, 2013: God and evolution 6: Is Darwinism atheism?
May 23, 2013: God and Evolution 5: The problem of chance
May 2, 2013: Evolution quotes: The context of arguments
April 19, 2013: God and evolution 4: The problem of Purpose B
April 13, 2013: God and evolution 3: The problem of purpose A
April 6, 2013: Latest developments on the Synthese affair
April 4, 2013: God and evolution 2: The problem of creation
April 1, 2013: God and evolution 1
March 22, 2013: Does anyone want to pay me for this blog?
March 5, 2013: Sorry for the downtime
February 28, 2013: I'm suspending Evolving Thoughts
February 28, 2013: Knowing things in semantic space
February 21, 2013: Education, Journalism and Science
February 17, 2013: Drama, journalism and science
February 15, 2013: My latest paper
February 14, 2013: Yeah, I'm teaching too
February 9, 2013: Coming to Berkeley
February 6, 2013: Tractatus Logico-Chocolatus
February 5, 2013: So *that's* why they call it football!
February 3, 2013: The relation of classification to abductive reasoning
January 27, 2013: Pattern recognition: neither deduction nor induction
January 26, 2013: More on reductionism
January 20, 2013: Gilbert White on Instinct: stepping back from Nature
January 20, 2013: Chocolate history
January 6, 2013: Ronin Institute for masterless scholars
January 2, 2013: Evopsychopathy 5: Conclusion
December 24, 2012: Classification and the DSM
December 20, 2012: Floyer and the man-faced pig
December 19, 2012: Classification and the periodic table
December 17, 2012: Aspergers and empathy
December 15, 2012: Evopsychopathy 4: Adaptive scenarios
December 15, 2012: Thoughts on gun control
December 11, 2012: Evolution quotes: The English and theories
December 9, 2012: Evopsychopathy 3: The explanatory target
December 9, 2012: "I suffer not a woman to teach"
December 7, 2012: Evopsychopathy 2: The phylogenetic bracket
December 6, 2012: Evopsychopathy 1. Conditions for sociobiology
December 4, 2012: Eww, I stepped in some evolutionary psychology and other crap
November 26, 2012: The classification of clouds
November 25, 2012: My latest paper - Carving Nature at its Joints, a review
November 24, 2012: Why is Darwin's theory so controversial?
November 14, 2012: How hard is the Hard Problem?
November 10, 2012: The meaningless mythical mandate
November 8, 2012: Evolution quotes: On human nature and doubt
October 26, 2012: Metaphysics, a poem
October 26, 2012: What is critical thinking
October 23, 2012: Evolution quotes: Social Darwinism by Haldane
October 17, 2012: Jefferson on classification
October 12, 2012: Chocolate causes Nobel Laureates
October 7, 2012: Jack Smart has died
October 5, 2012: Knees, ligaments and evolving thoughts
September 28, 2012: Free Will
September 28, 2012: Wilkins in the Ukraine, and a special issue on Lyell
September 26, 2012: The Philosophy Club
September 20, 2012: Pizza reductionism, emergence and phenomena
September 15, 2012: I'd laugh if I didn't think this was believed
September 11, 2012: Competition prizes found at last!
September 9, 2012: Scientism and methodological naturalism
September 2, 2012: Does philosophy generate knowledge?
September 1, 2012: Begging questions about philosophy, science and everything else
August 28, 2012: Xocolatl and the creation of the universe
August 26, 2012: Phylogeny and the history of language and culture
August 25, 2012: A periodic table of insects? More thoughts on classification
August 25, 2012: New publications
August 25, 2012: Too adaptationist?
August 19, 2012: Urkkkh!
August 16, 2012: Evolution Quotes: Quine on evolving similarity
August 11, 2012: On innovation
August 6, 2012: Congenital belief
July 31, 2012: On birds, and ornithologists, and mutual respect
July 17, 2012: Zombies and chocolate: what it is like to eat a block
July 16, 2012: A template for philosophical debates
July 15, 2012: How to win an argument
July 14, 2012: Chocoholism
July 11, 2012: My presentation on Mercier and Sperber's Argumentative Theory
July 9, 2012: Chocolatarianism: the only rational foundation for ethics
July 6, 2012: How not to give a keynote
July 4, 2012: I'm about to give a keynote… in Poland
July 4, 2012: New thinking
July 4, 2012: A leading philosopher blogs… about cuttlefish!
June 29, 2012: We seem to be back...
June 26, 2012: Hello? Can you hear me now?
June 20, 2012: The hiatus
June 8, 2012: The Endarkenment
June 8, 2012: Living in a third world first world country
May 30, 2012: Some of my recent talks
May 20, 2012: Yoghurt demonology
May 20, 2012: Metaphysical determinism
May 12, 2012: Evolution quotes: Theories are not the whole of science
May 9, 2012: Evolution quotes: Socialism
May 8, 2012: Empirical Perspectives
May 6, 2012: Why eat meat?
May 5, 2012: Analytic thinking, religion and science – the rhetoric and the psychology
May 4, 2012: Evolution quotes: Arguments
May 1, 2012: Carnival of Evolution 47: All the Evolution News that's Fit to Blog
April 23, 2012: Get your Evolution Carnival posts in soon!
April 21, 2012: Community, unbelief, and the rise of secularism
April 16, 2012: Update
April 11, 2012: The dangers of walking
April 8, 2012: Myersmeme
April 7, 2012: The Knight's Song, or What is a [scientific] theory?
April 4, 2012: Book proposal call
April 3, 2012: Evolution Quotes: Twain on inference about the past
March 30, 2012: Bayes, evolutionary clocks, and biogeography
March 25, 2012: The decline of Australian progressivism
March 22, 2012: What warrant is there for belief in God?
March 21, 2012: The ET Fund update
March 19, 2012: Are humans, apes, monkeys, primates, or hominoids?
March 18, 2012: Hume's Dialogues: A coloured edition
March 15, 2012: More on the editorial rewrite of the referee report
March 12, 2012: Is this common: editors rewriting referees reports?
March 10, 2012: Marking time...
March 6, 2012: Progress in creation science
March 4, 2012: What, however, is the EAAN?
March 3, 2012: Plantinga's EAAN revisited
March 3, 2012: Update – we are still online
February 25, 2012: Evolving Thoughts may shut down for a while
February 18, 2012: Doxastic biases and arguments for religion (and other things)
February 16, 2012: Quote: Nominalism
February 11, 2012: Is Santorum the finest mind of the 13th century?
February 7, 2012: Did Popper and Quine invent "Aristotelian essentialism"?
February 4, 2012: Is the dismal science even possible?
January 31, 2012: Plantinga's EAAN
January 22, 2012: Dark days
January 21, 2012: A philosophical apology from 1919 for not being pro-war
January 21, 2012: A logical inference, or, on how to submit Carnival of Evolution posts
January 18, 2012: The Shandyan dilemma
January 15, 2012: Notes on Novelty 8: Conclusion - Post evo-devo
January 14, 2012: Notes on novelty 7: Surprise!
January 13, 2012: Size matters
January 13, 2012: Sherlock Cumberbatch on Evolutionary Psychology
January 12, 2012: You can't explain a variable with a constant
January 12, 2012: Evolution quotes: Quetelet on populations
January 8, 2012: The difference between population concepts and "population thinking"
January 7, 2012: Notes on novelty 6: Levels of description
January 7, 2012: Facebook group for ET
January 4, 2012: Some relevant comics
January 3, 2012: Affirming the consequent and doing science and history
January 1, 2012: The year's substantial posts
December 31, 2011: Notes on novelty 5: Evolutionary radiations and individuation
December 29, 2011: Irreducible complexity robotics
December 29, 2011: Notes on Novelty 4: Examples - the beetle's horns and the turtle's shell
December 26, 2011: Notes on novelty 3: The meaning of evolutionary novelty
December 25, 2011: Happy Newtonmas
December 23, 2011: Responsibility
December 22, 2011: The meaning of Christmas
December 21, 2011: The ongoing question of whether humans are conscious. I mean, drones...
December 21, 2011: Mill on species and Kinds
December 20, 2011: Without comment
December 18, 2011: Notes on novelty 2: Historical considerations - before and after evolution
December 15, 2011: Attack of the Unlibrarian
December 14, 2011: Notes on novelty 1: Introduction
December 12, 2011: Make Pentarrus V strong again!
December 11, 2011: Getting Gettier
December 10, 2011: Adopt an atheist auction
December 9, 2011: A busy fortnight
December 6, 2011: The utility of evolutionary psychology
December 5, 2011: Can an atheist have a code of ethics?
December 1, 2011: Wilkins hides in fear
November 27, 2011: Once more into the fray, dear agnostics
November 25, 2011: Prescriptions for atheists
November 22, 2011: Positivism about agnosticism
November 19, 2011: I *can* get satisfaction!
November 17, 2011: Agnostic versus atheist chess
November 15, 2011: Science is not a religion, nor does it involve faith
November 11, 2011: Who created God? Engineers
November 10, 2011: Hume on induction (sort of)
November 9, 2011: On the suspension of belief and disbelief
November 5, 2011: The origins of fundamentalism
November 2, 2011: Competition winners
November 2, 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 5: Social Dominance and Power
November 2, 2011: Philosophy for kids?
October 29, 2011: The ecological equivalent of Evolving Thoughts
October 29, 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 4: Predicting traits
October 28, 2011: Why am I not speaking at 2012 Global Atheism?
October 27, 2011: The mind of the ecological engineer
October 26, 2011: The nature of stochastic events in a block universe
October 25, 2011: Gratitude and humility
October 20, 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 3: clades and grades
October 19, 2011: A shameless pathetic begging letter - give me money or God will take me to heaven
October 18, 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 2: chains and trees
October 17, 2011: I have arrived
October 11, 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 1: Introduction
October 10, 2011: More jobs for philosophers
October 10, 2011: This man is the best of Australia's political landscape
October 8, 2011: Passing thoughts and miscellany
October 6, 2011: The Eternal Beachball
October 6, 2011: What caused Steve Jobs' death
October 6, 2011: Steve Jobs: My part in his success
October 4, 2011: Competition: copy of my species book
October 1, 2011: Philosophy quote: Nagel on Analytic Philosophy
October 1, 2011: Testing Tweet Embedding
September 30, 2011: Ecological speciation
September 30, 2011: Economists are banned from philosophy
September 28, 2011: Crowdsourcing – online database in WordPress
September 28, 2011: Jobs for philosophers
September 26, 2011: More Feynman on philosophers
September 25, 2011: Still in love, by Justin Currie
September 21, 2011: Naturalism and investigating the unnatural
September 21, 2011: Discrimination against women politicians in Australia
September 20, 2011: Where's Wilkins?
September 16, 2011: Zombies of qualia and intentionality
September 14, 2011: Huxley on species
September 13, 2011: Finally, meme theory is working out in science
September 13, 2011: Wow, I'm a finalist at 3QD!
September 13, 2011: What is philosophy?
September 12, 2011: I'm a 3QD Philosophy Prize semifinalist
September 10, 2011: Goodbye freedom
September 7, 2011: The taxonomy of disease
September 6, 2011: The principle of charity, qualia, and philosophy
September 4, 2011: On sources
September 3, 2011: It goes on...
August 31, 2011: A sense of self
August 31, 2011: Math as language
August 28, 2011: No, surrender
August 26, 2011: Counting species
August 22, 2011: An education reform
August 20, 2011: My feet, my neck, my head
August 17, 2011: But, this is exactly right!
August 14, 2011: Evolution quotes: Diderot
August 14, 2011: Passing thoughts on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
August 13, 2011: Christian capitalism and socialism
August 10, 2011: Domains, disciplines and levels
August 9, 2011: Downward Causation
August 8, 2011: Reduction and surprisal, or, why water is wet
August 8, 2011: Reduction and emergence
August 3, 2011: Honey, I accidentally redesigned the blog!
August 2, 2011: God damn Tony Piro!
August 2, 2011: Yet another "post-Darwinism"
August 2, 2011: Penises, criminals and me
July 31, 2011: Wittgenstein, transformation, and evolution
July 26, 2011: Atheism, agnosticism and theism 6: Conclusion
July 25, 2011: Atheism, agnosticism and theism 5: Scope and indexing
July 25, 2011: What should evolutionary psychology comprise?
July 22, 2011: Atheism, agnosticism and theism 4: Existence claims
July 20, 2011: Believe in evolution?
July 20, 2011: On Hauser
July 20, 2011: Atheism, agnosticism and theism 3: Knowledge claims about gods
July 18, 2011: Apture
July 16, 2011: Atheism, agnosticism and theism 2: What it is to have a belief
July 16, 2011: Synthese News
July 15, 2011: Atheism, agnosticism and theism: the landscape, part 1
July 13, 2011: American Chemical Society: Spammers
July 11, 2011: Religions, cults and wacos
July 11, 2011: Evolution and truth
July 9, 2011: Could God Have Set Up Darwinian Accidents?
July 8, 2011: On the moral purity of skeptics and fallacies
July 6, 2011: How to be Deepak Chopra
July 6, 2011: Why do philosophy of science
July 4, 2011: More on tone
July 4, 2011: Graphical Philosophy
July 3, 2011: Sorry for the empty post
June 30, 2011: Theodicy and the cosmos
June 30, 2011: Belief and evolution
June 27, 2011: Sorry for being absent
June 21, 2011: Atheists aren't entirely human, part whatever
June 19, 2011: Technical problem
June 19, 2011: Domains and theories in science
June 18, 2011: Spirits and Souls
June 16, 2011: My article in Times Higher Education Magazine
June 16, 2011: Disambiguating the Theory-Dependence of Observation thesis (TDOT)
June 15, 2011: Is reality liberal biased? Are liberals reality biased?
June 10, 2011: Oops
June 9, 2011: More on phenomena
June 7, 2011: The evolution of bacon
June 2, 2011: Species, phenomena and data
May 27, 2011: Is the soul something we should be agnostic about?
May 26, 2011: Competition for public funds
May 25, 2011: The evolution of common sense on Scientific American
May 22, 2011: Rapture and risk
May 21, 2011: Australian scientists resign from Murray-Darling Water commission due to a lack of heed
May 21, 2011: Me-mail
May 20, 2011: Quote: Eddington's two tables
May 19, 2011: Ah, look at all the lonely planets
May 19, 2011: How to export a blog as a document
May 19, 2011: Terminological exaptitude
May 13, 2011: Did humans lose dominance?
May 9, 2011: Vale Lionel Rose
May 8, 2011: Hume's birthday
May 7, 2011: Discussing the Evolutionary Debunking Argument
May 7, 2011: The undergraduate effect and the gravity wells of knowledge
May 6, 2011: A new comment policy?
May 5, 2011: Synthese petition closed with 470 academic signatures
May 3, 2011: Changing commenting system
May 2, 2011: Time to re-evaluate higher education
April 30, 2011: Are you a HPS scholar?
April 30, 2011: Paper withdrawn from Synthese
April 28, 2011: Believing and knowing
April 26, 2011: More on why Brian Blessed is a monkey
April 26, 2011: The bloggy kindness of strangers
April 26, 2011: Pope on evolution: more of the same teleological thinking
April 25, 2011: Evolution quote: Sirks and Zirkle
April 25, 2011: Amis to Hitchens on agnosticism
April 23, 2011: Farewell Sarah Jane
April 22, 2011: Open thread on Synthese
April 22, 2011: Is Brian Blessed a monkey or an ape?
April 21, 2011: Us, them and the real issue
April 20, 2011: How to be a creationist
April 19, 2011: A boycott of Synthese
April 18, 2011: Conference on religion as an evolutionary byproduct
April 14, 2011: Did Synthese bow to Intelligent Design pressure?
April 11, 2011: Need editors for PhilPapers
April 7, 2011: Evolution, or as we call it, EFF Theory
April 4, 2011: On the Greens, Israel, and the fallacy of composition
April 2, 2011: On inclusive fitness
March 30, 2011: Secular atheist radical Islamists
March 28, 2011: Turtles all the way down
March 25, 2011: Somewhere in the multiverse...
March 24, 2011: Systematists have a strange sense of humour
March 24, 2011: Something happened to the DNS again
March 23, 2011: Talk on natural classification
March 23, 2011: Mind spelunking
March 22, 2011: Testing... is this thing on? *tap, tap*
March 20, 2011: Philosophy hand signals
March 18, 2011: Travel funds
March 17, 2011: Somehow, I got minions/The first biological species concept revisited
March 15, 2011: On the problem of the problem of evil and Darwin
March 15, 2011: I get email
March 14, 2011: Just wait until the Humeans get a sticker in law books
March 8, 2011: Descartes before the horse - does information exist?
March 4, 2011: Pattern cladism and the myth of theory dependence of observation
March 2, 2011: xkcd again!
February 25, 2011: The heuristics of antiscience
February 24, 2011: Housekeeping
February 18, 2011: Darwin Day: Enough already
February 18, 2011: Repost: What actually *is* design?
February 16, 2011: Why philosophers should publish in science journals
February 13, 2011: Admin: May be off line for a week
February 13, 2011: Too big for my boots
February 10, 2011: Whorf-Sapir
February 10, 2011: Arseholes! Systematics, phylogenetics and HPS
February 9, 2011: On dictionaries, movements and rhetorical flourishes
February 9, 2011: More on philosophy and society
February 6, 2011: The nature of philosophy and its role in modern society
February 5, 2011: Taxonomy as product
February 5, 2011: What is systematics and what is taxonomy?
February 2, 2011: Modus Darwin and the *real* modus darvinii
February 1, 2011: Guest post for comment: sex and evolution
February 1, 2011: Logic, evolution, and classification
February 1, 2011: God of the gaps
January 29, 2011: Imagination and ID
January 27, 2011: Intelligent designoids are unsure about me
January 26, 2011: The false analogy between species and art
January 25, 2011: The logic of our forefathers
January 23, 2011: My talk online
January 21, 2011: Update on a pilgrim's progress
January 15, 2011: "Species" an ALA Choice Book
January 13, 2011: While I move, a delay in posts
January 12, 2011: A paperback of Species: A History
January 11, 2011: Some technical changes
January 11, 2011: So, can we have some civility now?
January 10, 2011: A question to my readers
January 8, 2011: More Peirce
January 8, 2011: Phylogeny, induction, and the straight rule of homology
January 7, 2011: A quote on science
January 6, 2011: Can one do philosophy of religion?
January 3, 2011: How many species of plant are there?
December 31, 2010: 2010 roundup
December 30, 2010: Attacks on philosophy by scientists
December 29, 2010: Jen and John's Expotition
December 27, 2010: Stuck in rural Queensland
December 22, 2010: A review of my species book
December 22, 2010: Reasoning manga
December 21, 2010: The end of a dream... for now
December 20, 2010: Statism and Wikileaks
December 18, 2010: Does teleology hang on in Venice?
December 16, 2010: The mind of other species
December 16, 2010: Evolution and its rivals - special issue of Synthese
December 12, 2010: Wilkins on radio
December 10, 2010: Geegate
December 9, 2010: And I just finished teaching reasoning skills...
December 7, 2010: Australians and science
December 6, 2010: The society of mind is a debating society
December 6, 2010: How to ethically operate
December 5, 2010: Darwin's motivation
December 4, 2010: More on David Hull
December 3, 2010: What it is like to be a digital camera
December 3, 2010: Arsenic and the life extraterrestrial
December 1, 2010: Also, you don't always get what you want
November 29, 2010: Unbelievers aren't quite human, part 2
November 26, 2010: New rules for science journalism
November 26, 2010: On inspiration
November 14, 2010: Woodger on Properties
November 14, 2010: The view from nowhere and objectivity in the media [revised]
November 11, 2010: Evolution in films
November 9, 2010: On abortion
November 6, 2010: David Hull is dead
November 5, 2010: The Greek Pantheon Test
November 2, 2010: New Carnival of Evolution
October 31, 2010: Tone wars
October 29, 2010: Academic genealogies
October 28, 2010: Gatesgate
October 27, 2010: Human reasoning
October 24, 2010: Things Glenn Beck has never seen
October 23, 2010: David Hull Prize
October 21, 2010: Young links
October 20, 2010: How many species concepts are there?
October 18, 2010: More deaths
October 17, 2010: A link to a kill
October 17, 2010: On seeing Storm
October 14, 2010: I wonder what it *is* that I actually do?
October 12, 2010: Flashlinks
October 11, 2010: Churchill on Islam
October 10, 2010: My present work
October 10, 2010: Unnecessary people
October 9, 2010: In practice, theory and practice are... defunded
October 8, 2010: My life as a book
October 8, 2010: The Velvet Underground of...
October 7, 2010: How scientific journalism is, and should be done
October 7, 2010: Scientist's Operating Manual - Evidence; gathering, measuring, analysing
October 7, 2010: Killer Links from Outer Space
October 5, 2010: Never let an Epicurean into a conservation conference
October 2, 2010: The historical way to do science
October 1, 2010: The Quiet Links
October 1, 2010: A night about religion
September 30, 2010: Scientist's Operating Manual - Introduction
September 30, 2010: Classic quotes: Hume
September 30, 2010: David Hull celebration
September 28, 2010: On Negation
September 28, 2010: The Link in Red
September 27, 2010: I knew it! Every statistician I ever met was mad
September 25, 2010: On the origins of creativity
September 24, 2010: Rieppel reviews my book
September 23, 2010: Linkballs
September 23, 2010: Facts are too scrutable!
September 18, 2010: The Scientist's Operating Manual
September 17, 2010: Do not pity progessives
September 17, 2010: A bridge to nowhere
September 17, 2010: How scientists think, a book proposal
September 15, 2010: Arts grads are not the most annoying
September 14, 2010: No Link Out
September 12, 2010: Repo Link
September 12, 2010: 9/11
September 11, 2010: If only he had used his science for niceness, instead of evil
September 11, 2010: George C. Williams dies
September 11, 2010: Sorry for the absence
September 8, 2010: Why Hume was wrong
September 8, 2010: For every philosopher
September 8, 2010: Crowdsourcing question: scientific method book?
September 7, 2010: Whewell's Ghost, a HPS blog
September 4, 2010: 9 1/2 Links
September 4, 2010: Similarity
September 4, 2010: Stephen Hawking and the creation of the universe
September 4, 2010: 3QD Philosophy prize
September 2, 2010: Philosophy TV
September 2, 2010: You are what you eat
August 31, 2010: A quote on the ethics of belief
August 30, 2010: A Chorus Link
August 30, 2010: Dickness, part 2
August 30, 2010: A book review: Merchants of Doubt
August 29, 2010: Dicks, niceness and evil: a rant
August 28, 2010: Do you enjoy ET?
August 28, 2010: Where *can* we put a mosque?
August 27, 2010: Homology and analogy
August 26, 2010: Some loose ends – Reductionism and Phylocode
August 26, 2010: Agnostics needed!
August 24, 2010: Ranking
August 24, 2010: Three for the Links
August 22, 2010: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
August 22, 2010: Miscellany while I'm away from home
August 19, 2010: Australian book of atheism
August 19, 2010: Why David Chalmers is wrong
August 14, 2010: Cosmetic surgery
August 14, 2010: Some stats
August 13, 2010: Ruse on Hull: a memoir
August 13, 2010: A quote that should be true
August 12, 2010: David Hull's philosophy
August 11, 2010: Two kinds of natural classification, and hybrid classifications
August 11, 2010: Short sharp definitions
August 10, 2010: EFA Summarises Australian Party policies on censorship
August 10, 2010: A Nightmare on Link Street
August 8, 2010: Sixteen links
August 8, 2010: On non-cohort based education
August 7, 2010: Dynamics and classification redux
August 6, 2010: Natural classification and the dynamics of science
August 6, 2010: Beverley Hills Link
August 6, 2010: Evolution quote
August 6, 2010: Australian internet filter dead in water
August 6, 2010: Why agnostics don't have holidays
August 6, 2010: The strange inversion of natural classification
August 4, 2010: Well yes...
August 4, 2010: The Evil Links I
August 4, 2010: Pundit parody
August 3, 2010: The Links Strike Back
August 2, 2010: Superiority
August 2, 2010: Scoobie Doo Realism
July 31, 2010: Linkraiser
July 29, 2010: Who linked Roger Rabbit?
July 29, 2010: Kinds of free will
July 26, 2010: Withnail and Links
July 26, 2010: The first casualty
July 24, 2010: Exactly right
July 24, 2010: A philosophy blog
July 23, 2010: Phil Plait destroys the earth
July 23, 2010: Highlinker: There can be many
July 21, 2010: Religion and Tolerance
July 21, 2010: The Karate Link
July 21, 2010: #SBFail
July 20, 2010: Herding cats, ethically
July 18, 2010: Creation, a personal reflection on the movie
July 18, 2010: Advice from the Little Mermaid?
July 17, 2010: Names and nomenclature in classification
July 17, 2010: An Officer and a Link
July 17, 2010: The Bastards are emerging
July 16, 2010: Raiders of the Lost Link
July 15, 2010: The philosophy of geology
July 14, 2010: A conversation about scientific evolution
July 14, 2010: The Return of the Linking Dead
July 13, 2010: The Name of the Link
July 13, 2010: Evolution Quote
July 13, 2010: Thomas Browne on compelling religion
July 13, 2010: Last year in Lisbon...
July 13, 2010: I am an idiot
July 13, 2010: A technical hitch
July 12, 2010: Test post
July 9, 2010: Full Metal Links
July 8, 2010: For Opinionated Bastards
July 8, 2010: Massive Scienceblogs exodus
July 8, 2010: The "who" thread
July 8, 2010: The "who" thread
July 7, 2010: Schadenfreude, the taste of the real thing generation
July 7, 2010: Darwinism, Philosophy and Society
July 6, 2010: Cultural evolution essay
July 5, 2010: Alienus a me puto
July 5, 2010: Wikipedia is down
July 5, 2010: Who... are you?
July 4, 2010: New Carnival of Evolution
July 4, 2010: My latest paper
July 3, 2010: Consequences of theistic evolution
July 3, 2010: At last, a proper review of Fodor and Piatelli-Palmerini
July 2, 2010: A symbol for Agnostics
July 2, 2010: May I self-identify?
July 2, 2010: The man with two links
June 30, 2010: Gillard not wonderful: opposes gay marriage
June 30, 2010: On borders and boundaries
June 29, 2010: Australian PM Gillard not religious
June 29, 2010: Ferris Link's Day Off
June 29, 2010: Ferris Link's Day Off
June 29, 2010: In which I upset PZ, again, by not knowing
June 28, 2010: The problem of foreknowledge
June 27, 2010: Random thoughts about God and evolution
June 26, 2010: Beverley Hills Links
June 26, 2010: Dinosaur books!
June 26, 2010: A thought
June 25, 2010: Evolution quotes: Darwin on randomness
June 25, 2010: On recent developments, and a prospective
June 24, 2010: The difference with Australian politics
June 24, 2010: An empirical investigation into the comparative advantages of purchasing from Ford and Upgrading from Apple
June 24, 2010: The Link Purple
June 24, 2010: Australian business
June 22, 2010: Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
June 22, 2010: On a lack of assistance for depression
June 22, 2010: A Mornington Crescent thread
June 22, 2010: Your favourite Australian science blogger
June 21, 2010: Big Links in Little China
June 21, 2010: Read this blog
June 19, 2010: An American Werelink in London
June 18, 2010: Interdisciplinarity never works
June 18, 2010: A Link called Wanda
June 17, 2010: Favourite Terry Pratchett Discworld novels
June 16, 2010: Homology
June 16, 2010: Dirty Linking
June 15, 2010: Evolution Quotes: Feyman on religion and science
June 15, 2010: I'm so proud of Australia
June 15, 2010: I'm so proud of Australia
June 15, 2010: The Princess Link
June 12, 2010: Linkbusters: Who you gonna call?
June 12, 2010: Evolution quotes
June 11, 2010: The Renaissance Mathematicus is one today
June 11, 2010: Link By Me
June 11, 2010: The Oxford conference
June 11, 2010: Animation movie meme
June 9, 2010: Warning: Dawkins leads to agnosticism
June 9, 2010: Prichard on species
June 9, 2010: Evolution quotes
June 8, 2010: I know what you linked last summer
June 8, 2010: Links of the Lambs
June 7, 2010: But I don't know any graph theory!
June 7, 2010: But I don't know any graph theory!
June 6, 2010: Linkology
June 6, 2010: The difference between philosophy and biology
June 5, 2010: Me in Spanish
June 4, 2010: On Templeton money
June 3, 2010: Evolution quotes
June 3, 2010: More linkingnessheit
June 3, 2010: Vote now!
June 2, 2010: What is a homology?
June 2, 2010: Linkletters
June 1, 2010: Linkwaddies
May 31, 2010: Linkism
May 31, 2010: Evolution quotes
May 31, 2010: Do atheists "relapse"?
May 31, 2010: Do atheists "relapse"?
May 31, 2010: Is creationism about to be taught in Queensland?
May 29, 2010: In which I get Guardianed
May 28, 2010: Some of my recent papers and reviews
May 28, 2010: You can too get to Mornington Crescent
May 28, 2010: P-Angels
May 28, 2010: It's a mystery
May 28, 2010: It's a mystery
May 27, 2010: Linkagery
May 25, 2010: Linkabillies
May 22, 2010: Defining philosophy
May 21, 2010: Ruminations after Oxford
May 19, 2010: Ruminations in Oxford
May 17, 2010: Demons!
May 14, 2010: Sterelny reviews book on Gould
May 14, 2010: Off to the wilds of Oxfordshire
May 13, 2010: Testing universal common ancestry
May 12, 2010: FAPP on the doorstep
May 12, 2010: Was Darwin a philosopher?
May 11, 2010: Fishing for philosophy
May 10, 2010: Building a Milvian Bridge
May 10, 2010: Jesus a philosopher part 2
May 9, 2010: Was Jesus a philosopher?
May 8, 2010: More on the CT teacher case
May 8, 2010: Even more FAPPery
May 7, 2010: I should stand for Parliament perhaps
May 6, 2010: Supernatural selection 2
May 6, 2010: Taking the veil [away]
May 6, 2010: Evolution quotes
May 5, 2010: Supernatural selection: Book review
May 4, 2010: The Philosophers' Menu
May 4, 2010: The Philosophers' Menu
May 4, 2010: The evolution of sex solved
May 2, 2010: Carnival of Evolution
May 2, 2010: Scientists on religion
May 1, 2010: Darwin, Romanes and Bateson on speciation
May 1, 2010: Evolution quotes
April 30, 2010: Linkerie
April 28, 2010: Evolution quotes
April 28, 2010: Boobquake results
April 27, 2010: More FAPPery
April 27, 2010: Network censorship by Apple
April 27, 2010: God is dead, so be good for goodness sake
April 26, 2010: Another historian criticises FAPP
April 26, 2010: Europe follows Australia in clean feed!
April 25, 2010: Evolution quotes
April 24, 2010: A chilling effect
April 24, 2010: Book reviews
April 21, 2010: God acts in mischieveous ways
April 20, 2010: Catholic ethics, and the Australian Museum
April 19, 2010: The fourth R: Reasoning
April 18, 2010: Catholic Blame Game
April 17, 2010: Tired debates
April 16, 2010: This explains so much
April 15, 2010: Evolution quotes
April 15, 2010: Evolution quotes
April 15, 2010: The hope of the future of the Illuminati
April 15, 2010: Larson on FAPP
April 14, 2010: Two almost bear patterns from a partial Symocyon of a sesamoid "thumb"
April 14, 2010: Two almost bear patterns from a partial Symocyon of a sesamoid "thumb"
April 14, 2010: *Real* doctor?!
April 13, 2010: Peter Jensen - religious bigot
April 13, 2010: Legal metaphysics of genes
April 12, 2010: Reminiscences of one who was there
April 12, 2010: Culpability and the Catholic Church
April 11, 2010: On the straits of philosophy
April 11, 2010: Wilkins in UK
April 9, 2010: More journalistic idiocy about evolution
April 8, 2010: A notice of ET
April 8, 2010: Test post
April 7, 2010: You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals
April 7, 2010: You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals
April 5, 2010: When philosophy meets historical taxonomy
April 5, 2010: Paine on national churches
April 5, 2010: A cactus wearing a hat, and Jesus swordfighting
April 4, 2010: You can't have proper human relationships unless you are a Christian
April 4, 2010: You can't have proper human relationships unless you are a Christian
April 2, 2010: Bees on coke
April 2, 2010: The dogs do bark...
April 2, 2010: On rednecking
April 2, 2010: Thought for the day: Why is "now" now?
April 2, 2010: Thought for the day: Why is "now" now?
March 31, 2010: Linkeries
March 31, 2010: Researchers teach gorilla existential angst
March 30, 2010: A quote
March 29, 2010: Oppose internet censorship
March 28, 2010: Zimmer's evolving blog post on X-woman
March 28, 2010: Zimmer's evolving blog post on X-woman
March 27, 2010: Links again
March 26, 2010: Links
March 23, 2010: A quote: On philosophers and evolution
March 21, 2010: Affirmative Atheism
March 21, 2010: More on the Fodor and Piatelli-Palmerini thing
March 19, 2010: How to track a crisis
March 19, 2010: His satanic majesty
March 18, 2010: Snippets
March 17, 2010: Questions for the Cephalod Emperor
March 14, 2010: Thermodynamics, and the origin of replicators
March 10, 2010: New book on climate and human evolution
March 10, 2010: On knowledge and consistency
March 6, 2010: On the need for grownups [Thoughts from Kansas]
March 6, 2010: Of course I am
March 4, 2010: The policy policy
March 4, 2010: mtDNA varies in a single individual
March 3, 2010: Intelligent late night TV
March 2, 2010: Updated Olympics rankings
March 2, 2010: Caste in India
February 27, 2010: McCarthy and the autism demon
February 27, 2010: The PhD and the rabbit-hole
February 26, 2010: A schism in the Church of Dick
February 24, 2010: Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini on natural selection
February 23, 2010: Who started the rumor that Darwin doesn't explain the origin of species in the Origin?
February 21, 2010: The Ontological Fallacy
February 21, 2010: A good summary article on intuitions in biology
February 20, 2010: The best scientific ideas
February 18, 2010: The founder of the history of ideas
February 16, 2010: More link!
February 16, 2010: Aristotle on politics and religion
February 15, 2010: Links
February 10, 2010: Linkages
February 4, 2010: Thoughts on the periodic table
February 2, 2010: Pope gets tax-paid visit to UK to denounce equality of gays before the law...
January 31, 2010: On fear and risk
January 29, 2010: On tattoos in Latin
January 27, 2010: Woo medicine kills
January 26, 2010: Woo science kills: dowsing for bombs
January 23, 2010: On nonscience smear campaigns
January 22, 2010: More civil insolence
January 22, 2010: Update: Genetic information paper
January 22, 2010: Civil insolence
January 22, 2010: A really good philosophy blog
January 20, 2010: Some interesting links
January 19, 2010: Darwinism entry revised at SEP
January 18, 2010: Yet another Darwin diagnosis
January 17, 2010: Avatar plotline
January 16, 2010: You cannot harm a religion
January 16, 2010: "Including none at all"
January 15, 2010: A video for Pat Robertson
January 12, 2010: I'm back, but busy!
January 12, 2010: I'm back, but busy!
December 31, 2009: A list of my better posts in 2009
December 31, 2009: An interesting paper on cultural evolution
December 31, 2009: On the terrorism of stories
December 25, 2009: Christmas irony
December 24, 2009: A Received View paper on species
December 21, 2009: Happy Solar Festival
December 20, 2009: Correlation does not imply causation
December 17, 2009: God causes a Sumerian recession
December 13, 2009: Mute monks sing the Hallelujah chorus
December 12, 2009: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must sing, badly
December 12, 2009: Some more on Toulmin
December 12, 2009: A positive review
December 11, 2009: Leiter on Nagel on Meyer
December 11, 2009: A new philosophy and biology journal
December 10, 2009: Toulmin dies
December 6, 2009: Sausages, and science
December 6, 2009: I'm traveling and moving... again.
December 5, 2009: Sewall Wright on emergence
December 5, 2009: Copernicus did not demote humanity
December 2, 2009: On vitalism
December 1, 2009: India and evolution
November 30, 2009: Stupidity
November 28, 2009: A contrary view on Heidegger
November 26, 2009: Darwin was not badly received by the church
November 25, 2009: What counts as “unique”?
November 25, 2009: Uppity Atheist recants and retires
November 25, 2009: Computers aren't science
November 24, 2009: Intelligent Design Explained
November 23, 2009: It was 150 years ago tomorrow
November 23, 2009: Everyone should read this
November 23, 2009: A rather big year
November 21, 2009: Pearson on Classification
November 21, 2009: Announcing a new book of mine
November 21, 2009: Puns everywhere!
November 19, 2009: Species in the news
November 18, 2009: Lazy Manager Theory
November 16, 2009: Johnson on instinct
November 16, 2009: Critical reasoning texts
November 16, 2009: Hunting for the Hat Gene
November 15, 2009: The New Yorker on "Freakonomics" and Global Warming
November 15, 2009: Plato on the origin of the gods
November 15, 2009: Darwinian evolution for culture
November 13, 2009: Should I be worried?
November 13, 2009: More non-avian feathered Chinese dinosaurs
November 13, 2009: Illiger’s Prodromus
November 13, 2009: Philosophy as forgetting, and index characters
November 13, 2009: Mill on philosophical errors
November 13, 2009: Tom Waits on Entomology
November 12, 2009: Odds and ends
November 11, 2009: But ID is not based on religion, no, not at all, fer shure
November 11, 2009: Different ways to kill an idea
November 10, 2009: Wilkins on screen
November 10, 2009: Home, tired, and amused
November 7, 2009: A philosopher faces her own mortality
November 6, 2009: Travel Diary 13: Berkeley talk
November 6, 2009: Lynch on the misuse of history by creationists
November 6, 2009: "More than a theory" Lyrics
November 5, 2009: Travel Diary 12: Berkeley
November 5, 2009: Sokal on philosophers of science
November 5, 2009: Ray Comfort, plagiarist
November 3, 2009: Notre Dame conference - the washup
November 3, 2009: Reflections on theology
November 3, 2009: Travel Diary 11: Notre Dame
November 1, 2009: How immigration restrictions are starting to hurt academic research
November 1, 2009: Actually Philosophy won't help here either
November 1, 2009: An old question: genes and responsibility
October 31, 2009: On journals and citation styles
October 31, 2009: Arendt and Heidegger - moral failures?
October 30, 2009: The lying Origin
October 30, 2009: Repost: The Song of the Scientist
October 29, 2009: An unnecessary rebuttal
October 29, 2009: On the need for critical reasoning
October 28, 2009: Arbitrary execution
October 28, 2009: Darwin and Blumenbach
October 28, 2009: De mortuis nil nisi bonum
October 28, 2009: OK, so Ares works
October 28, 2009: Buffy is my personal saviour
October 28, 2009: Science eats its seed corn
October 27, 2009: Travel Diary 10: DC
October 27, 2009: Is your university really undergoing a fiscal crisis?
October 27, 2009: New evolutionary blogger
October 27, 2009: Defining religion
October 27, 2009: Some stuff while I'm in DC
October 24, 2009: Travel Diary 9: An Australian in New York
October 19, 2009: Travel Diary 8
October 17, 2009: Travel Diary 7
October 15, 2009: The forgotten Holocaust
October 15, 2009: For the past week, I've actually been in Germany
October 14, 2009: Is evangelicalism the walking dead?
October 14, 2009: On gods and religion
October 14, 2009: A god is born
October 14, 2009: Come to Australia and learn to handle venomous snakes
October 13, 2009: Travel Diary 6
October 12, 2009: Well deserved honor to Genie Scott by California Academy of Sciences
October 12, 2009: PZ is a God Botherer
October 12, 2009: Why the west invaded Iraq
October 12, 2009: I'm on sale in Blackwell's!
October 12, 2009: Travel Diary 5
October 12, 2009: The Golden Age of Islam
October 7, 2009: Travel Diary 4
October 6, 2009: Travel Diary 3
October 4, 2009: Travel Diary 2
October 3, 2009: Travel diary 1
October 2, 2009: What came before Darwin
October 2, 2009: Ardi rules
October 1, 2009: Carnival of Evolution 16
October 1, 2009: Ithaca
October 1, 2009: Counterintuition: Bdelloid Rotifers
September 30, 2009: Adaptationism for and against
September 29, 2009: Darwin and the female body
September 29, 2009: Going backwards, or, devolution?
September 29, 2009: Jorge Cham is following me
September 27, 2009: What I am doing on my holidays....
September 24, 2009: Off to see the world
September 24, 2009: Konrad Lorenz - a lecture
September 24, 2009: That's not an Origin of Species; *this* is an Origin of Species
September 24, 2009: Adaptationism issue of Biology and Philosophy
September 23, 2009: Psychiatric Tales
September 23, 2009: Quotes scare me
September 23, 2009: Linkage
September 23, 2009: UC Press evolution book sale
September 22, 2009: Religious Nones
September 22, 2009: Hi. I'm John, and I Tweet
September 22, 2009: Some Sydney lectures I will miss
September 21, 2009: Actually...
September 21, 2009: Oh dear...
September 20, 2009: The earliest picture in Islam?
September 19, 2009: The evolution of the nervous system
September 18, 2009: Unscientific Australia
September 18, 2009: A review at Arnhart
September 18, 2009: The hate that dare not speak its name
September 18, 2009: Irish history of science
September 17, 2009: Some more on that snake leg
September 17, 2009: I will not read Dan Brown's latest
September 17, 2009: Can Christianity be rescued from the crazies?
September 17, 2009: They're both here
September 17, 2009: Veerryyy interesting, but so sad
September 16, 2009: Facts of Evolution: a video series for school students
September 16, 2009: What clergy think about evolution
September 16, 2009: Math and urine
September 16, 2009: Green scripts, and spam
September 15, 2009: New article[s] at the Stanford Encyclopedia
September 15, 2009: Atavisms and phylogeny
September 14, 2009: Uh, wait, what?
September 14, 2009: Turing: A poem
September 14, 2009: Ooooohhhh, nude dinosaurs....
September 13, 2009: Groves on the species concept
September 12, 2009: Go vote for Grrl
September 11, 2009: Butler's word games
September 11, 2009: Vampires and crosses
September 11, 2009: Turing gets apology
September 11, 2009: A new argument for scientific realism
September 10, 2009: The nightmare of Christianity
September 10, 2009: The Blue Book is in PDF
September 9, 2009: Arnhart on Hitler's Ethic
September 9, 2009: Erdös Numbers in philosophy
September 9, 2009: Pullman says Jesus isn't God. Film at 11
September 9, 2009: Online ornithology
September 9, 2009: Can we fix it? No, we can't
September 9, 2009: "The last stage is us"
September 9, 2009: The difference between the name and the thing
September 9, 2009: Teleology as a mistress
September 9, 2009: Some good news
September 8, 2009: Neurath on the surface
September 8, 2009: Guards! Guards! trailer
September 8, 2009: Weaselling
September 8, 2009: Things are not always what they seem
September 6, 2009: Sensible information on the US Health Care debate
September 6, 2009: The new Darwin film
September 6, 2009: Tautology 7: Conclusions
September 6, 2009: Visualising Darwin
September 5, 2009: Krugman on Keynes - how economists screwed up
September 5, 2009: Apologies to Turing
September 4, 2009: Hybrid species and conservation
September 4, 2009: Musgrave on vaccine denialism
September 3, 2009: Tautology 6: A resolution
September 3, 2009: I am a paleontologist
September 3, 2009: Quark Philosophy Blog Awards
September 2, 2009: On preventive censorship versus punishment
August 31, 2009: Three book reviews
August 30, 2009: Tautology 5b: The issues, continued
August 30, 2009: Google Books, the last, worst, library?
August 30, 2009: Tautology 5a: The issues
August 28, 2009: The use of history by philosophers
August 27, 2009: Schools, if not conservative Christians, can learn from experience
August 27, 2009: New paper on polyploid speciation
August 26, 2009: Australians can't be young earth creationists
August 26, 2009: Thoughts of a Republican
August 26, 2009: Quorum sensing in bacteria and cooperation
August 26, 2009: Book review: Evidence and Evolution
August 26, 2009: Tautology 4: What is a tautology?
August 25, 2009: Tautology 3: The problem spreads
August 25, 2009: In the mind of a microbial paper
August 23, 2009: On Grayling on the Jesuits
August 23, 2009: Sorry for the repeats
August 23, 2009: Tautology 2: The problem arises
August 23, 2009: Rudiments and vestiges
August 23, 2009: The weekend in crazy
August 23, 2009: Time wasting
August 22, 2009: Tautology 1b: Butler
August 21, 2009: tautology 1a: corrections
August 20, 2009: The tautology problem
August 20, 2009: Cui bono? Health scammers
August 20, 2009: The difference between astrology and astronomy
August 19, 2009: Some hominid evolution items
August 18, 2009: The Myth of Ascent
August 18, 2009: Peirce on Darwin (1877)
August 18, 2009: Two new papers of mine
August 18, 2009: Obit: Chris Humphries
August 17, 2009: Abram
August 16, 2009: Err...
August 14, 2009: On linkage
August 14, 2009: On the origins of syphillis
August 14, 2009: Griffiths on Human Nature, report
August 13, 2009: Republican responsibility
August 12, 2009: Essence
August 12, 2009: Focus on the "how", not the "why"
August 11, 2009: Harvey Milk is getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom
August 11, 2009: The basis for civil society
August 10, 2009: A huff at the Huffington Post
August 9, 2009: Evolving electricity
August 8, 2009: On philosophical practice
August 8, 2009: Wheeler on Yoon on species
August 8, 2009: Science as atheistic
August 7, 2009: Couple of my recent papers
August 7, 2009: On debating the worthwhile
August 7, 2009: New SEP article on innateness
August 7, 2009: First copy of the Species book!
August 7, 2009: Dreams of memes and replicator machines
August 7, 2009: Online predators are not nearly so bad as the media says
August 6, 2009: Chris Humphries dies
August 6, 2009: It's not just economics
August 6, 2009: Renaissance mathematicus
August 6, 2009: Paul Griffiths on Human Nature
August 5, 2009: Punish the obsessive
August 4, 2009: Epitaph on a Tyrant
August 3, 2009: Farr on MRI
August 2, 2009: How to communicate
August 2, 2009: It's just the question mark I have to bear
August 2, 2009: Carnivale!
August 1, 2009: The second in the series "Species and Systematics"
August 1, 2009: Opinion and facts on climate change
August 1, 2009: Grayling on Gopnik
July 29, 2009: Feeling smug
July 29, 2009: My Carter number is one
July 28, 2009: Rant on Dembski
July 27, 2009: Fundamentalist atheism?
July 27, 2009: Godfrey Smith's book
July 27, 2009: Metaphysics of Science papers
July 26, 2009: More Whewell
July 26, 2009: On the Gates arrest
July 25, 2009: Good God. Bush was a force for reason
July 23, 2009: Evidence and Evolution
July 23, 2009: Around the internets
July 23, 2009: Quotemining in the 19thC
July 22, 2009: Religion and well being
July 21, 2009: Where I was, forty years ago
July 21, 2009: Some more reading
July 20, 2009: We are natural villagers
July 20, 2009: Evolution and morality
July 19, 2009: Ideas for papers
July 18, 2009: Some reading
July 17, 2009: Unscientific America
July 17, 2009: On bullying at school, and reunions
July 16, 2009: This never gets old
July 16, 2009: Back in the saddle
July 13, 2009: Briefly
July 9, 2009: Second book cover
July 9, 2009: So much to say, so little time
July 7, 2009: Informational caloric
July 7, 2009: Religion and truth revisited
July 7, 2009: BBC show on Ediacaran fauna
July 7, 2009: Lynch's challenge to the Orang crowd
July 6, 2009: Annie's death was not the cause of Darwin's agnosticism
July 6, 2009: Gods above
July 5, 2009: Work intervenes
July 2, 2009: Social dominance psychology in humans
July 2, 2009: How to tell if your country is illiberal
July 2, 2009: Modelling and ecological niches
July 2, 2009: Does science lead to atheism? Not really
July 1, 2009: I'm a bit annoyed
July 1, 2009: Social dominance hierarchies
June 30, 2009: I have got to get a leather jacket
June 30, 2009: Indifferentialism
June 30, 2009: Science in the "dark ages"
June 29, 2009: On hierarchies
June 29, 2009: Bones of the founder of Christianity confirmed
June 28, 2009: The Overton Window
June 27, 2009: Book review
June 26, 2009: The great accommodationism debate
June 26, 2009: On speciation
June 26, 2009: Not Good Ideas #1
June 26, 2009: The Antarctic Grrl
June 24, 2009: Definitions of atheism
June 23, 2009: The relation between physics and biology
June 21, 2009: Taxonomist's revenge
June 20, 2009: Carlin's last interview
June 20, 2009: A brainy post
June 20, 2009: My cyborg name
June 19, 2009: Apes and evolution in the news
June 19, 2009: Obama still making the right secular noises
June 19, 2009: Happy birthday, Errol
June 19, 2009: Bright flash on Australian mountain
June 19, 2009: Nominate me for something
June 18, 2009: Species Concept Fail
June 18, 2009: I do love the Kiwis
June 17, 2009: This is what happens if you resist a Wilkins
June 17, 2009: Linnaeus: the founder of databases
June 17, 2009: Join the Pirate Party now!
June 17, 2009: The US loses academic freedom?
June 17, 2009: Evolution and the law
June 16, 2009: The Demon Spencer
June 14, 2009: Laws and explanation in history
June 12, 2009: Objecting to the prevailing tide
June 12, 2009: NIAC at NASA
June 11, 2009: When do species begin?
June 11, 2009: Who's responsible?
June 10, 2009: The news just keeps getting better
June 10, 2009: Heather Graham - it's true what they say about blondes (in Hollywood, anyway)
June 10, 2009: Alien life in Phoenix
June 10, 2009: What is a philosopher?
June 8, 2009: The doctrine of double truth
June 8, 2009: Another ID knockdown, by Sarkar
June 7, 2009: Awww. how cute
June 6, 2009: A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion
June 6, 2009: A nice idea
June 5, 2009: No dino pee
June 5, 2009: Homeopathy is dereliction of a duty of care
June 5, 2009: Cultural evolution and population density
June 5, 2009: The antiabortionists guided Roeder
June 4, 2009: The Times purveys some science myths
June 4, 2009: Quetelet and the origin of statistical and population thinking
June 4, 2009: And atheists and agnostics?
June 4, 2009: Customers! Oy!
June 4, 2009: In which I express gratitude and humility
June 3, 2009: Ever closer...
June 2, 2009: Taxonomy, the fading field
June 2, 2009: I have moved the Basic Concepts in Science post
June 2, 2009: The begging bowl
June 2, 2009: Catching up, deeply breathing, summarising
June 1, 2009: Why should abortion be a matter of public policy?
June 1, 2009: Probable Christian shoots known Christian in church for disagreeing with him
June 1, 2009: On rules
May 31, 2009: Another Seed blog moves on
May 31, 2009: How many ways can you make a logical mistake?
May 30, 2009: Christian soldiers
May 30, 2009: Amusing typogarphical errors - 5
May 30, 2009: What I have been doing lately, and why
May 30, 2009: Danger! Snark ascending!
May 28, 2009: Il mort di Spock
May 26, 2009: Social networking is not new
May 26, 2009: Plagiarism, citations, and fact checking
May 25, 2009: Burke on Definition
May 24, 2009: Save the humanities character at PhDComics
May 24, 2009: The hammer of religious faith
May 24, 2009: We have a domain name now
May 24, 2009: Links from around
May 23, 2009: Fame in Brazil
May 23, 2009: The Church's abuse of Irish children
May 23, 2009: Ten best species for the last year
May 23, 2009: Welcome to ET 3!
May 21, 2009: We will resume transmission as soon as we can
May 19, 2009: No, it's not an ancestor either (probably)
May 19, 2009: Alpha Fail
May 19, 2009: Philosophy and evolution
May 18, 2009: Creative Commons and textbooks
May 18, 2009: Punnett on Mendelism and species
May 17, 2009: Quote
May 16, 2009: Moral atheists
May 16, 2009: Welcome u n d e r v e r s e
May 16, 2009: Benson Mates dies
May 16, 2009: Teeth and a marsupial lion
May 16, 2009: Actually, it's the process of answering that matters, not the answer
May 14, 2009: If you don't believe what I believe, you aren't fully human
May 13, 2009: What is "secular"?
May 11, 2009: What is the "humanities"?
May 11, 2009: There is no missing link
May 10, 2009: The first biological species concept
May 10, 2009: Typical. Bloody typical
May 9, 2009: The science of systematics
May 8, 2009: Is religious cognition adaptive?
May 8, 2009: A new online philosophy of biology journal
May 8, 2009: On how to avoid swine flu spreading
May 6, 2009: Various divers thingies
May 6, 2009: Chloroplast origins
May 5, 2009: Do you believe in evolution?
May 5, 2009: So I says..
May 5, 2009: Digesting the literature
May 5, 2009: Political censorship of internet linkage begins in Australia
May 4, 2009: Homeopathy kills too
May 2, 2009: A prehumous Darwin Award for Michelle Bachmann
May 2, 2009: Linnaeus on evolution by hybridism
May 1, 2009: False botanists
April 30, 2009: When even the NYT notices, it's obvious
April 29, 2009: An ancient cladogram
April 29, 2009: Antivaxer story on the way
April 28, 2009: So many bad puns, so little time
April 28, 2009: Are creationists rational?
April 27, 2009: I'm back. Now for sleep
April 25, 2009: Science and religion for individuals and organisations
April 25, 2009: Did Gallieo go blind by watching the sun?
April 23, 2009: Ooh, cool!
April 22, 2009: Slowly being seduced by Portugal
April 20, 2009: Life lessons
April 20, 2009: The disconnect between biology and philosophers
April 19, 2009: Georgia Lee
April 18, 2009: A poignant obituary
April 17, 2009: Python versus man
April 17, 2009: CIA exemption is the wrong thing to do
April 16, 2009: Finding Q
April 16, 2009: Darwin conference at U Chicago
April 16, 2009: If this is Friday, I must be in Sydney
April 10, 2009: The first use of a taxonomic tree
April 9, 2009: Australian Easter bits
April 9, 2009: Holiday greetings
April 7, 2009: The End of Punditry
April 7, 2009: Brazilian science reporting site
April 6, 2009: On epigenetics
April 5, 2009: Philosophy of Biology workshop at Madison in 2010
April 5, 2009: Philosopher threatened with prison for copyright violations
April 4, 2009: It's not censorship it's, ahh...
April 3, 2009: Information and metaphysics
April 3, 2009: Relaxation technique
April 3, 2009: Twitter?
April 2, 2009: On the lateral transfer post
March 31, 2009: New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong
March 30, 2009: Quelle excitement!
March 29, 2009: Microsoft spins it
March 28, 2009: Visualising the molecular
March 27, 2009: Bits
March 26, 2009: Dissecting a flying pterothingy
March 26, 2009: Some linkage
March 26, 2009: Any Latin scholars about?
March 25, 2009: Wicked ways with Mormons
March 24, 2009: Life by Tull
March 24, 2009: A philosopher reviews a biologist on evolution
March 23, 2009: Why didn't I think of that?
March 22, 2009: Science Communication and the Business Model
March 21, 2009: On civil disagreement
March 19, 2009: Blumenbach on the unity of the human species, and on species
March 19, 2009: Yet Another Philosophy of Science Blog...
March 19, 2009: Virus-like particles a wasp's way of making more wasps
March 19, 2009: Dembski can't weasel out of this one
March 19, 2009: Internet censorship in Australia ramps up
March 18, 2009: Anyone in Amsterdam?
March 18, 2009: Taxonomy wars, ersatz and echt
March 18, 2009: The Simpsons on taxonomy
March 17, 2009: Defending liberal democracy
March 17, 2009: Marjorie Grene dies
March 16, 2009: Early modern philosophy texts for students
March 14, 2009: Mill on Kinds and Types
March 12, 2009: Eccentricity
March 11, 2009: Atheists should not be seen or heard
March 11, 2009: Taxonomy was the reason for Darwin's theory
March 11, 2009: It's official - Wittgenstein wins in a landslide
March 11, 2009: Again, uncannily accurate
March 10, 2009: Michael Ruse lecture
March 9, 2009: Pi Day
March 9, 2009: The domestic origins of dialethic logic
March 7, 2009: A blog recommendation
March 6, 2009: Darwin, Atheism, and the Catholic Church
March 6, 2009: xkcd - Correlation
March 4, 2009: Why we'll never be downloaded
March 4, 2009: Myth 6: Darwin thought everything was due to natural selection
March 2, 2009: Savage Chickens
March 2, 2009: William Smellie on the great chain of being
March 1, 2009: Myth 7: Darwin thought that Australian aborigines were closer to apes than to Europeans
March 1, 2009: Last century's best philosopher?
February 26, 2009: Some quick links
February 26, 2009: Been a bit busy, sorry
February 25, 2009: Some more of Whewell on classification
February 23, 2009: BBC 100 Book Meme
February 21, 2009: Laws, theories and models
February 21, 2009: Ecological problems blog
February 20, 2009: Myth 5: Darwin thought evolution relied on accidents and chance
February 19, 2009: Myth 4: Darwin was a gradualist
February 17, 2009: Envall troll has his own blog
February 16, 2009: Briefly
February 16, 2009: Thomism and Intelligent Design
February 16, 2009: More on the UN Resolution
February 16, 2009: Myth 3: Darwin was a Lamarckian
February 13, 2009: Truisms 6
February 12, 2009: Myths 2: The origin of species
February 12, 2009: Darwin [quotes] wrong
February 12, 2009: Natural selection fails with Man - W. R. Greg
February 12, 2009: My office
February 11, 2009: Not Saint Darwin
February 10, 2009: Myths about Darwin
February 10, 2009: The theological mindset
February 9, 2009: Duck Family Tree Shows Hybridisation
February 9, 2009: This is not me
February 9, 2009: Interesting past few days
February 4, 2009: Religious exceptionalism and the UN
February 4, 2009: Great. My new suburb gets bombed
February 3, 2009: Book review: Freaks of Nature
February 2, 2009: Well, I'm in Sydney
January 30, 2009: On the supposed essentialism before Darwin
January 30, 2009: Amazing new philosophy resource
January 30, 2009: Metaphysics disclaimer
January 27, 2009: I know the engineer who set this up, I reckon
January 27, 2009: Fun in Guelph
January 26, 2009: More on the really bad journalism
January 24, 2009: The Place of Science in Society
January 23, 2009: You know you're a nerd when...
January 23, 2009: Darwin was wrong...ish
January 22, 2009: Science by pedophile
January 22, 2009: At last! A Macbook!
January 21, 2009: Reflections on the inauguration
January 21, 2009: Australia, and how to survive it
January 20, 2009: Basic introduction to homology
January 19, 2009: Science is a metaphysical party pooper
January 18, 2009: Truisms 5
January 18, 2009: People Get Ready
January 16, 2009: The ontology of biology 4 - pattern and process
January 16, 2009: Skewed views of science
January 15, 2009: On my other blog
January 14, 2009: A melange
January 12, 2009: Talkorigins.org back up
January 12, 2009: Truisms 4
January 7, 2009: Bits and pieces
January 6, 2009: Darwin worship, and demonisation
January 5, 2009: Truisms 3
January 4, 2009: A poem: Aubade by Philip Larkin
January 4, 2009: Expelled producer admits lying to atheist interviewees
January 4, 2009: Basic Concepts: Mathematics, Philosophy, Logic and Computer Science
January 2, 2009: Best of ET 2008
January 1, 2009: Terry and John
December 31, 2008: Truisms 2
December 29, 2008: The road to hell
December 29, 2008: Truisms 1
December 27, 2008: Basics: NOT
December 25, 2008: No Father Christmas? also no Jesus. Get used to it.
December 24, 2008: A nice discussion of the problems of Evolutionary Psychology
December 23, 2008: Miscellany
December 21, 2008: Interregnum
December 19, 2008: The "Get a life" meme
December 17, 2008: Basic Concepts: Biology
December 17, 2008: Basic Concepts in Science: A list
December 16, 2008: The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won't. Work.
December 16, 2008: The commodification of learning
December 16, 2008: What is philosophy?
December 14, 2008: Oops!
December 14, 2008: No shit!
December 14, 2008: Tetrapods, species selection, and extinction
December 14, 2008: Rudd does too little on climate change
December 14, 2008: Watch Wilkins from Space
December 12, 2008: Some new work on speciation and species
December 12, 2008: How to learn about science...
December 12, 2008: Teacher, there's a god in my evolutionary soup...
December 11, 2008: How to hijack a thread
December 11, 2008: New Australian censorship stuff
December 10, 2008: Trashcan: hobs and goblins
December 8, 2008: ISP filtering for Americans too?
December 7, 2008: Trashcan: chaotic remnants
December 6, 2008: Month first line meme
December 6, 2008: British schoolkids' teddies win space race
December 6, 2008: More on ISP filtering
December 5, 2008: The ontology of biology - interlude and podcast
December 5, 2008: Any sufficiently analyzed magic...
December 4, 2008: It's the end of the world as he knows it
December 3, 2008: Another antipodean philosopher's blog
December 3, 2008: The Policy policy, and a Bill of Rights
December 2, 2008: Bigotry in the sunshine state
December 2, 2008: How the Windogs do howl
December 1, 2008: Worst. Argument. Ever?
December 1, 2008: Five-fiftysix meme
November 29, 2008: A mild apology
November 28, 2008: Dennett has heart surgery after an aortic dissection, and gives thanks
November 27, 2008: Noooooooo!!!!
November 27, 2008: Some more on ISP filtering, and a rant on censorship in Australia
November 26, 2008: GetUp! gets up with ISP Filtering
November 24, 2008: 149 years ago today
November 24, 2008: More on clean feed opposition
November 23, 2008: Science versus science fiction
November 23, 2008: I can't handle the Truth
November 21, 2008: Why? The beginnings of philosophy
November 21, 2008: Revisionist historian walks free, rightly so
November 20, 2008: The trashcan categorial
November 20, 2008: If the UN calls a world philosophy day and doesn't tell anyone...
November 20, 2008: Body of Copernicus found
November 19, 2008: 99 things on the wall meme
November 19, 2008: Internet justifies itself at last!
November 17, 2008: Stormy weather
November 16, 2008: Aut felis
November 15, 2008: Another goldang meme
November 14, 2008: The ontology of biology 3 - phenomena
November 14, 2008: Yes, this is my cat
November 12, 2008: Aut lupus, aut deus
November 12, 2008: Internet filtering opposition gathering speed
November 11, 2008: Working for people you admire
November 11, 2008: The ontology of biology 2 - How to derive an ontology in biology
November 10, 2008: NYT article on genes
November 10, 2008: On censorship
November 10, 2008: Internet filter pwn
November 9, 2008: Darwin as a historiographer
November 9, 2008: When entropy and ecology collide...
November 8, 2008: The ontology of biology 1 - What an ontology really is
November 6, 2008: Oh yeah...
November 6, 2008: Ontologies of biology
November 5, 2008: Bits and pieces
November 5, 2008: Did Jeb Bartlett win?
November 5, 2008: Now for the downside of the elections
November 4, 2008: Snowflake says "well done"
November 4, 2008: Vote now!
November 3, 2008: Rovian dialogue
November 3, 2008: Call it now
November 2, 2008: Suppose the Republicans win, or lose
November 2, 2008: What happens when you call the president a lame duck?
November 1, 2008: Orthodox Jews and evolution
November 1, 2008: "Class" war
October 28, 2008: Dibs and dobs
October 28, 2008: More developments on internet filtering: the religious connection
October 27, 2008: The real cause of the economic crisis: AC/DC
October 27, 2008: Species article online
October 27, 2008: What do Americans want from a leader?
October 27, 2008: Ugly old guy
October 27, 2008: Never piss off the sysadmin
October 27, 2008: News from Ediacara
October 26, 2008: Orb spiders
October 25, 2008: Gems from Tom Waits
October 24, 2008: I told you so
October 24, 2008: When phylogeny matters
October 23, 2008: The religious we have always with us
October 23, 2008: History and Historiography
October 22, 2008: How is a species like a soup can?
October 21, 2008: This is a disgrace
October 20, 2008: Crunchy goodness
October 18, 2008: Stupid internet filtering sucks even more
October 17, 2008: Vitalism
October 16, 2008: My grant project
October 14, 2008: More roundup
October 13, 2008: History in schools
October 12, 2008: Is America fascist?
October 10, 2008: Red right
October 9, 2008: Secularism as protection for religion
October 6, 2008: Not the end of evolution again!
October 6, 2008: A quote from Hume
October 5, 2008: Thoughts on the "Shuttle gap"
October 5, 2008: God tells the creationists off
October 5, 2008: The Darwinian Gardener again
October 4, 2008: An open letter to creationists
October 2, 2008: My book is out the door
October 1, 2008: Journals object to index metrics
October 1, 2008: Why bonobos will never get their own prime time TV show
September 28, 2008: The origins of agriculture now extended
September 28, 2008: Open Lab 08
September 28, 2008: Evolution and economics
September 27, 2008: Knit Darwin's tree
September 27, 2008: Politics and the primate threat
September 25, 2008: The eater of time
September 25, 2008: Which Discworld character are you?
September 24, 2008: Basic Concepts: Medicine, Psychology and Psychiatry
September 23, 2008: Ants!
September 22, 2008: New paper on science blogging
September 22, 2008: Fallacies on fallacies
September 20, 2008: Drowning in the sea of faith
September 18, 2008: Off to talk religion and evolution
September 17, 2008: Sport is an existential crisis
September 16, 2008: Dawkins on the nose again
September 16, 2008: Aristotle on the mayfly
September 15, 2008: More roundup
September 14, 2008: Cleesing the God Gene
September 14, 2008: On religion, and apologies
September 14, 2008: The narratives of science journalism
September 13, 2008: Roundup - not just for weeds!
September 12, 2008: Are Americans clinically insane?
September 11, 2008: Scientists as historians
September 10, 2008: Even the Good Guys get it wrong!
September 9, 2008: Comment snafu
September 9, 2008: Grayling on Fuller
September 8, 2008: Linnaeus Legacy carnival 11 up
September 8, 2008: Ten things you don't know about the Earth
September 8, 2008: Links for losers
September 6, 2008: Rodney Stark's idiotic history
September 5, 2008: Darwin, God and chance
September 4, 2008: Sick... again
September 3, 2008: Sterelny wins Nicod Prize
September 1, 2008: Asia's empty forests
August 31, 2008: Spin versus framing: the tragedy of PR
August 30, 2008: Browsing through the Philosophical Transactions on species and generation
August 28, 2008: Cambrian fossils at Kangaroo Island
August 28, 2008: Font of humor
August 27, 2008: What gets logicians hot
August 26, 2008: Some interesting links
August 26, 2008: A biosphere for Brisbane
August 25, 2008: Neither does "diairesis"
August 25, 2008: Books
August 24, 2008: The real Olympic performers
August 23, 2008: Priest off!
August 23, 2008: To be, and not to be - that is the quantifier
August 22, 2008: A casual disregard for facts
August 22, 2008: Is Christianity healthy?
August 21, 2008: Basic Concepts: Historical and social sciences
August 21, 2008: "Systematics is sick"
August 20, 2008: Basic Concepts: Biology
August 20, 2008: Basic Concepts: Physics and Astronomy, Geology, and Chemistry
August 20, 2008: Fun with Christians and worldviews
August 19, 2008: Agriculture and the rise of religion
August 17, 2008: Heh...
August 16, 2008: Is it true? I don't know
August 14, 2008: Wilkins back in Portuguese
August 14, 2008: The heat of religion
August 14, 2008: Genetic engineering and organic farming
August 14, 2008: A blast from my past is reasonable - shock!
August 13, 2008: Only government approved labs can do experiments, see?
August 12, 2008: Win Apple stuff. Give it to me.
August 11, 2008: Sarkar on Fuller
August 11, 2008: Blogging the history of science
August 9, 2008: Bugs online
August 9, 2008: Kid's resource for species
August 8, 2008: Other adaptive landscape papers
August 7, 2008: Colbert, spiders and cohesion species
August 6, 2008: New paper by Wilkins
August 5, 2008: Half of all primate species face extinction
August 5, 2008: Developing dumbness
August 5, 2008: New work on speciation
August 4, 2008: The value of the history of science
August 4, 2008: Congrats to Phil Plait
August 4, 2008: If your PhD was run by Windows
August 4, 2008: More of me in Spanish, and information again
August 3, 2008: A quote for the day
August 3, 2008: Wilkins in Spanish (or Portuguese)
August 1, 2008: What is atheism?
July 30, 2008: Spencer was no social Darwinian
July 29, 2008: Picoeukaryotes
July 29, 2008: More on humanities
July 29, 2008: The stupidity of ISP filtering no barrier to its implementation
July 28, 2008: Newsgroup worries
July 28, 2008: What philosophy of science and "postmodernism" have in common
July 27, 2008: Vagabonds in taxonomy
July 26, 2008: What is a basic concept?
July 25, 2008: Look, up in the sky, it's... Supertree
July 25, 2008: The Latest from the "Discovery" Institute
July 24, 2008: The vista from an apple
July 23, 2008: Busy, busy, busy
July 23, 2008: Why are there still monkeys?
July 22, 2008: Fish can walk!
July 21, 2008: Species: a history of the idea
July 21, 2008: It was 38 39 years ago today
July 20, 2008: On blogging while tenure tracking
July 19, 2008: The Dark Knight
July 18, 2008: Dr Horrible
July 17, 2008: Species is a hard concept
July 17, 2008: I've been LOL'd!!1
July 16, 2008: Getting rid of "Darwinism"
July 16, 2008: History of evolution
July 15, 2008: Cloudy
July 14, 2008: More on black and white physics
July 12, 2008: Online, about being online
July 12, 2008: Desecration, blasphemy in public, and manners
July 10, 2008: Right there in black and white
July 10, 2008: *sigh* More Haneef farce
July 10, 2008: Draws breath...
July 3, 2008: Off in the wilds of... Melbourne
July 1, 2008: On the "Darwin Year"
July 1, 2008: Commander in Chief
June 27, 2008: Terry Pratchett hasn't found God, or his keys
June 26, 2008: Miscellany
June 26, 2008: Religion and politics across the pond
June 25, 2008: Development of the universe
June 25, 2008: You can prove a negative
June 25, 2008: Carlin on the state of the US
June 22, 2008: On what Quine was...
June 21, 2008: The evolution of morality
June 21, 2008: Albert and Carroll on bloggingheads.tv
June 18, 2008: Why do scientific theories work? The inherent problem
June 18, 2008: Darwinian gardening again
June 18, 2008: Try explaining philosophy of biology sometime
June 18, 2008: A code for area names
June 17, 2008: What makes scientists laugh?
June 17, 2008: Student database to attract hackers
June 16, 2008: How to get an improbable outcome
June 16, 2008: We may never fully understand it
June 16, 2008: Attenborough on creationism
June 14, 2008: Grammar wars in Queensland
June 11, 2008: Bastardising history in the service of dogma
June 11, 2008: New work on the origin of life
June 11, 2008: Some fun
June 9, 2008: On being offended and disrespected
June 9, 2008: The evolution of reduced virulence
June 9, 2008: Do low status primates eat badly?
June 8, 2008: Is there a species rank?
June 7, 2008: Farewell, Caribbean monk seal
June 4, 2008: Contingency, not-quite-asexuals, and phylogeny of continuous characters
June 4, 2008: Fine - you have a decent presidential candidate. Now for the VP
June 2, 2008: Out of the mouths of [mental] babes
June 2, 2008: What is a theoretical object?
June 2, 2008: 70th Philosophers' Carnival
June 2, 2008: Feedback now has to be authenticated
June 1, 2008: Why it's alright to be an elite bastard
June 1, 2008: Whewelling
May 31, 2008: On ontology and metaphysics: substance abuse
May 30, 2008: Why I like George Clooney
May 30, 2008: PZombies in Brisbane!
May 29, 2008: What is a species?
May 28, 2008: Another reason why the war on terrorism is a war on democratic freedom
May 28, 2008: Ten quirky species...
May 27, 2008: Reductionism article
May 26, 2008: ET Etiquette
May 25, 2008: Inherit the windbags
May 24, 2008: Oh ghods, I'm on TV
May 23, 2008: Congrats, and stuff
May 22, 2008: *SIGH*
May 21, 2008: New entry on Mach in Stanford Encyclopedia
May 21, 2008: PZombie meetup at University of Queensland
May 19, 2008: Sudden impact: Darwin on cognition and a leap of faith
May 18, 2008: Bats and mice and wings and things
May 18, 2008: Peace in our time!
May 18, 2008: Darwinian gardening, again
May 14, 2008: Render Caesar
May 14, 2008: What sorts of people
May 13, 2008: Speaking of spiders...
May 13, 2008: Neil Young gets his own web presence
May 13, 2008: Russell's teapot
May 12, 2008: Pastorale
May 9, 2008: Short takes
May 9, 2008: A meaningless numerical coincidence, w00t!
May 8, 2008: Podblack Cat
May 5, 2008: The name has been changed...
May 5, 2008: Religion and imagination
May 5, 2008: Definitely not right about gay marriage
May 4, 2008: Scientific bloopers
May 3, 2008: Barcoding and classification, again
May 3, 2008: On the supposed bottleneck 70,000 years ago
May 3, 2008: Another claim for priority from New Zealand
April 30, 2008: At last, a date for the K/T event
April 29, 2008: Almost, but not quite, right about gay marriage
April 28, 2008: A friend gets a trilobite named after him
April 27, 2008: The greatest threat: antimodernism
April 27, 2008: Resolved: religion is the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality that we face today
April 26, 2008: Sociology and science
April 26, 2008: 106 books of pretension meme
April 25, 2008: Lehrer on sociology
April 24, 2008: The leeches are out in force
April 23, 2008: The new Jews?
April 23, 2008: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
April 21, 2008: Some great actual biology posts
April 20, 2008: On ID and the public awareness of evolution
April 20, 2008: Sarkar slams Stein, while Kimbo kicks arse...
April 17, 2008: Good news, and bad news...
April 16, 2008: Oops, a slight error never killed anyone
April 15, 2008: Wilkins on Wilkins on The Galilean Library
April 14, 2008: Vale Wheeler, and Libet updated
April 13, 2008: Darwinism now affects intelligent design film!
April 11, 2008: On the decline of the humanities
April 7, 2008: The different epistemologies of science and religion
April 6, 2008: A slight diversion
April 6, 2008: Charlton Heston is dead
April 4, 2008: A good German site
April 4, 2008: Still crazy after all these years
April 3, 2008: The F-word
April 1, 2008: Le Guin on Rushdie and religion
April 1, 2008: Stein is right: Darwinism causes antisemitism
March 31, 2008: The boy chimp
March 31, 2008: Southern Skies is ten!
March 30, 2008: Can an elephant paint?
March 28, 2008: Physicists undertake stamp-collecting
March 28, 2008: Snowflake says "Vote Obama"
March 27, 2008: Neuroethics - a new journal and a new subject
March 25, 2008: Wilkins breaks away from the pack
March 24, 2008: Can a Christian accept natural selection as true?
March 24, 2008: A final note on Expelled
March 24, 2008: Species, framing, and stuff
March 21, 2008: Expertise and ignorance
March 21, 2008: Mantis shrimps: is there anything they can't do?
March 20, 2008: Irony is alive
March 19, 2008: Obama on race
March 18, 2008: Arthur C. Clarke dies
March 17, 2008: Observing the hot
March 17, 2008: Barcoding redux
March 17, 2008: Rethinking the Cambrian
March 17, 2008: New global map of land cover
March 15, 2008: Postblogging the conference
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Roberta Millstein
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Jon Seger
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Julia Clarke and Todd Grantham
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Jay Odenbaugh
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Stephen Peck
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Bill Wimsatt
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Jim Griesemer
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Piotrowski
March 14, 2008: Liveblogging the conference: Mishler
March 13, 2008: When philosophers really embarrass themselves
March 11, 2008: More Arizona fauna!
March 10, 2008: And so to Tucson
March 9, 2008: So, here I am in Arizona, still
March 7, 2008: Just so we know who we're talking about
March 7, 2008: Dawkins' lecture in Phoenix
March 6, 2008: Whew! (Spiders!)
March 3, 2008: Tempe AZ
February 28, 2008: Recursions
February 28, 2008: 150 years ago...
February 27, 2008: Why I love the Jewish point of view
February 27, 2008: Wilkins in foreign climes
February 25, 2008: In recent news
February 25, 2008: A meme. A medieval meme.
February 24, 2008: Mechanism, informationism and Ockhamism
February 24, 2008: Only the lonely
February 21, 2008: Reality, academe and the liberal bias
February 21, 2008: Why I never sleep
February 21, 2008: Edis on Islamic creationism
February 21, 2008: Taxonomists and bad history
February 20, 2008: New Companion to Philosophy of History
February 19, 2008: The cultural canoe
February 19, 2008: Lectures. Huh. What are they good for?
February 18, 2008: The "design" mistake
February 17, 2008: Math assholery
February 16, 2008: Expectorated!
February 14, 2008: Valentine's Day Poem
February 13, 2008: Interlude of peace and love
February 13, 2008: What is a disease?
February 12, 2008: The law, Sharia, and religious control
February 11, 2008: Happy Darwin Day anyway
February 10, 2008: What's so cool about Darwin?
February 9, 2008: Four seasons
February 9, 2008: Pro-Test, two years later
February 9, 2008: You have selected...
February 9, 2008: Another stupid piece of DNA worship
February 8, 2008: Meanderings and messages
February 4, 2008: How undergraduates see philosophy
February 3, 2008: NASA broadcasts Beatles
February 3, 2008: American politics and the available spectrum
February 2, 2008: Does religion evolve?
February 2, 2008: Intermediate concepts in science: a list
February 1, 2008: When evolution really sucks
February 1, 2008: Popes, evolution, and creation
February 1, 2008: The Haneef washup
January 30, 2008: Sky pilot
January 30, 2008: Vale Chesh
January 27, 2008: Who should be president?
January 27, 2008: If evolution were a religion...
January 26, 2008: Nature makes no leaps...
January 25, 2008: Why wasn't I told?
January 24, 2008: Del.icio.us Evolving Thoughts
January 24, 2008: Measuring extinctions
January 23, 2008: Research blogging goes live
January 21, 2008: Happenings
January 19, 2008: On, well, everything
January 19, 2008: A lucky man
January 18, 2008: Funny philosophers
January 17, 2008: Images on evolution outreach
January 17, 2008: Why not information?
January 17, 2008: A poem to remember - meme
January 17, 2008: A plea for the pope
January 16, 2008: Is information essential for life? No.
January 15, 2008: ROUS's? I don't believe they exist.
January 15, 2008: Harry Potter, you see, is the wrong kind of magician
January 13, 2008: Students publishing
January 13, 2008: Censureship
January 12, 2008: Slowing down
January 10, 2008: Verily, who is in the primary position
January 10, 2008: Is there a physicist in the house?
January 8, 2008: Stuff, not nonsense
January 7, 2008: Is postmodernism retreating?
January 7, 2008: In the news
January 6, 2008: On evolved morality
January 6, 2008: I hate a barnacle...
January 4, 2008: Nice genetics quip
January 3, 2008: Elvis is still dead. Oh, and evolution is a fact.
January 3, 2008: Roundup
January 3, 2008: What must a citizen know?
January 2, 2008: Darwinian gardening
January 2, 2008: Australia to impose "opt-out" filtering
January 2, 2008: Are you being watched?
January 1, 2008: COSMOS - a cool magazine
January 1, 2008: Changing minds
January 1, 2008: NYE: the aftermath
December 31, 2007: Happy new year
December 30, 2007: Judging experiments
December 30, 2007: Follies d'Air
December 29, 2007: The Golden Compass - a lead ballon?
December 29, 2007: Having PC heroes
December 28, 2007: The chronicle of 2200
December 28, 2007: Vedantic creationism
December 27, 2007: A tax on gorilla iconography? Oh noes...
December 27, 2007: Conspiracy theories
December 27, 2007: The iron rod of religion
December 25, 2007: What makes special creationism special?
December 24, 2007: The man who changed the world
December 22, 2007: Sunday sermon: on cultural isolation
December 21, 2007: Haneef: the final chapter
December 21, 2007: Thank the fates! The RQF is dead
December 21, 2007: The year in review
December 20, 2007: Taking drugs to enhance cognitive performance
December 19, 2007: My species article online at RNCSE
December 19, 2007: Levitt on Fuller
December 18, 2007: Wilko on Wikio
December 18, 2007: Traditions in academe
December 17, 2007: Species concepts really matter
December 14, 2007: A letter to a high school student
December 11, 2007: How to review a book
December 10, 2007: Do bacteria think?
December 10, 2007: Why do they kill?
December 9, 2007: Gosse is online
December 8, 2007: X-phi in the NYT
December 8, 2007: If they do this, I never need to use a M$ product again
December 8, 2007: A personal revelation
December 7, 2007: Rendition, lies and video tape
December 7, 2007: Couple of popular articles of mine
December 5, 2007: When academics attack
December 4, 2007: Virgin births
December 3, 2007: Nationalism and evolution
December 2, 2007: Dyspepsia and swallowing crap
December 1, 2007: Such a short honeymoon
December 1, 2007: Lynch is a winner
November 29, 2007: The philosophy of classification
November 27, 2007: What do colourless green ideas do? They sleep, furiously
November 27, 2007: Beatles' ode to John Howard
November 26, 2007: Peter Lipton has died
November 26, 2007: One more thing about Davies
November 25, 2007: The rejection letter I wouldn't mind getting
November 25, 2007: Physicists on science
November 25, 2007: I get email
November 25, 2007: Rudd, religion, and the body politic in Australia
November 24, 2007: 148 years ago today
November 22, 2007: Sociobiology 5: What is at issue
November 21, 2007: Sociobiology 4: individuals as groups, and a summary
November 21, 2007: Hope for bonobos
November 19, 2007: Sociobiology 3: Kin selection and pluralist explanations
November 18, 2007: Sociobiology 2: Theoretical foundations
November 18, 2007: The two Wilsons on sociobiology
November 18, 2007: New category for books
November 18, 2007: Our inner ape
November 12, 2007: Nominate [me] now!
November 11, 2007: Species as objects of explanation
November 10, 2007: Watch out for the crocs, you drunks!
November 10, 2007: Homology
November 8, 2007: Miscellany
November 7, 2007: Convention on biodiversity
November 6, 2007: Explaining religion 4 - Wolves and gods
November 6, 2007: Birds up
November 5, 2007: The library of the mind
November 5, 2007: Wimsatt on... everything
November 5, 2007: Animals and rights
November 4, 2007: Magnetic anomaly map finished
November 4, 2007: Political oxymorons
November 3, 2007: Upstream Issues
November 3, 2007: Flew, into the Cuckoo's Nest
November 3, 2007: Words and taxa
October 31, 2007: Explaining religion 3 - Is it adaptive?
October 31, 2007: A quote
October 31, 2007: Small world
October 29, 2007: Icons for peer-reviewed blogging
October 29, 2007: The worst government on earth behaved well
October 29, 2007: The Great Leader speaks (Mandarin)
October 28, 2007: Early vision was colourful
October 28, 2007: Ruse on Creationism in the SEP
October 25, 2007: Explaining religion 2 - what is religion?
October 25, 2007: New resource for philosophy of mind and cognition
October 23, 2007: Jon Stewart is the New Socrates
October 23, 2007: So, Dumbledore was gay, so what?
October 23, 2007: Systematics and Biogeography blog
October 23, 2007: Law, theory, or something else?
October 22, 2007: Explaining religion
October 22, 2007: Lectures done!
October 21, 2007: Mutant genres
October 15, 2007: A piece of useful software for Mac-using teachers
October 15, 2007: Another reason why the Howard government must go
October 14, 2007: Revisiting Haneef
October 12, 2007: Gore, peace and the "errors"
October 12, 2007: Amusing typogarphical errors - 4
October 12, 2007: A nice experience
October 10, 2007: People or classes?
October 7, 2007: Jobs for Philosophers
October 6, 2007: What Evolution Is and What It Is Not (1897)
October 5, 2007: How not to Feyerabend
October 4, 2007: Teh LOLCat Bible
October 3, 2007: Achieving enplightenment - Amusing typogarphical errors 3
October 3, 2007: 106 books meme
October 1, 2007: On extremes
September 30, 2007: Maurruzh in the pit of hell
September 28, 2007: Coming up...
September 28, 2007: Apologies to my commenters
September 28, 2007: How to fix Iraq, and not invade Iran
September 25, 2007: Well, there goes my academic career
September 24, 2007: A kiwi on moas
September 23, 2007: I want
September 23, 2007: Marcel Marceau passes away, quietly
September 22, 2007: Strong reciprocity
September 22, 2007: Microbial species: some papers
September 21, 2007: How to review intelligent design: defending Hacking
September 16, 2007: The constancy of change and the lack of balance
September 14, 2007: Speaking scientific factiness to power
September 14, 2007: Munchy ET goodness
September 13, 2007: Creationist lawsuit thrown out
September 13, 2007: All gorillas are Sigourney Weaver
September 13, 2007: What is "life", at last
September 11, 2007: Amusing typogarphical errors 2
September 10, 2007: Couple new philosophy entries in SEP
September 8, 2007: What is "life", again?
September 7, 2007: Amusing typogarphical errors 1
September 7, 2007: Australian bees are BETTER than American bees
September 7, 2007: Organic farming - a good idea?
September 6, 2007: Outstanding topics
September 6, 2007: On torture
September 6, 2007: The meaning of "life"
September 2, 2007: The more things change..
September 1, 2007: A note to my readers
September 1, 2007: Theories of speciation
August 31, 2007: Are species theoretical objects?
August 29, 2007: Christianity Today = Inanity Today?
August 28, 2007: In defence of Keanu, and the 5th best scientist
August 24, 2007: Verne Grant died
August 24, 2007: War on Abstractions
August 23, 2007: New paper on bacterial speciation
August 22, 2007: New ape fossil
August 22, 2007: The Essentialism Story
August 21, 2007: I aten't dead
August 18, 2007: Rudd's strip joint visit
August 15, 2007: Icon for Blogging Peer Reviewed research
August 15, 2007: My species definitions reader is accepted for publication
August 15, 2007: Popper peeps papally at UD
August 12, 2007: New paper by moi
August 12, 2007: Lego me too!
August 12, 2007: An essay on the evolution of human evolution
August 11, 2007: What is an individual?
August 8, 2007: Update on the Brazilian primate researcher case
August 8, 2007: Apes don't read philosophy
August 8, 2007: A blog worth reading
August 7, 2007: The inimitable Mr Spencer
August 7, 2007: [Philosophy of] science blogging
August 3, 2007: Home again
July 31, 2007: Storm World review in the LA Times
July 31, 2007: Haneef again
July 30, 2007: I'm the Captain, of course
July 30, 2007: Travel and stuff
July 27, 2007: Haneef cleared
July 25, 2007: In England's green and wet land
July 20, 2007: Indian terror suspect not really suspicious
July 19, 2007: Wilkins en route...
July 18, 2007: Lateral transfer of genes across the evolutionary tree
July 18, 2007: Australia goes Gitmo
July 17, 2007: You want nonconformity?
July 15, 2007: Religion and science
July 14, 2007: A quotation
July 13, 2007: Explanation
July 9, 2007: Simpson is my middle name
July 9, 2007: A review of Hitchens
July 9, 2007: No chance in Hell of a Catholic education
July 9, 2007: As ye sow...
July 7, 2007: Primate researcher in Brazil gets 14 years for a permit problem
July 6, 2007: Apropos today
July 6, 2007: 8 Things meme
July 5, 2007: The tyranny of King George
July 4, 2007: Random things
June 26, 2007: New Philosophy of Biology Forum
June 26, 2007: Where's Wilkins?
June 26, 2007: ID not OK in UK
June 22, 2007: Lewes on Heredity, in 1856
June 21, 2007: There will be slight delay
June 20, 2007: Greewald on Bush on Evil
June 20, 2007: Did some dinosaurs survive the K-T boundary
June 20, 2007: Couple of organismic blogs
June 20, 2007: Etruscans
June 20, 2007: Journalists and scientists - an antimatter explosion?
June 15, 2007: The World According to Genesis: Language and Society
June 15, 2007: Pell may be censured by Parliament
June 14, 2007: Rights for nonhuman apes?
June 13, 2007: Einstein's Credo
June 13, 2007: "Species" in the Stanford Encyclopedia updated
June 12, 2007: The kangaroo is the first organism, but the fungus is not the biggest
June 11, 2007: The World According to Genesis: The Flood
June 11, 2007: Scorecard for the Creationist Wars
June 10, 2007: Sunday sermon: part of the in-crowd
June 10, 2007: What is an Agnostic? by Bertrand Russell
June 10, 2007: Hmmm
June 10, 2007: I'm [nearly] one year old
June 8, 2007: Perspective
June 8, 2007: The World According to Genesis: Other peoples
June 8, 2007: Rorty has died
June 7, 2007: Schadenfreude for AiG
June 6, 2007: Pell causes Catholics stress
June 6, 2007: Philosophy is to science, as ornithologists are to birds: 3. Science is a Dynamic Process
June 6, 2007: The World According to Genesis: Moral Knowledge
June 5, 2007: Philosophy is to science, as ornithologists are to birds: 2. Two topics of philosophy of science
June 5, 2007: Genesis 2 rewritten
June 4, 2007: Philosophy is to science, as ornithologists are to birds: 1. Introduction
June 2, 2007: Reed Elsevier accepts criticism, drops arms support
June 2, 2007: Now this is a proper wedding ceremony
June 2, 2007: The World According to Genesis: Humanity
June 1, 2007: The World according to Genesis: Stuff that grows