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Category Archives: Science without worms
More Weizenbaum
A lovely passage, from the end of Chapter Seven: A theory is of course itself a conceptual framework. And so it determines what is and what is not to count as fact. The theories—or, perhaps better said, the root metaphors—that … Continue reading Continue reading
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Midgley, Dawkins update and end
I don’t normally cross-post from the _Guardian_ pieces here. But I finally stuck the Midgley/Dawkins story “somewhere people might read it”:http://tinyurl.com/2orrr6 and now I know what it feels like to be Madeleine Bunting. It also occurs to me, afterwards, that … Continue reading Continue reading
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Adaptationism contested
Jerry Fodor, in the _London Review of Books,_ “takes a swing at adaptationism”:http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n20/fodo01_.html in the name of Evo-Devo. I’m not sure that he lands any really new or heavy blows, but I have only read it once and I am … Continue reading Continue reading
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Dennett and the appearance of design
“Potentilla, in comments,”:http://www.thewormbook.com/helmintholog/archives/2007/10/03/mary_midgley_update.html#comments draws attention to Steve Fuller’s [“defence of his own testimony”:http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=50] at the Dover ID trial. There is a 115 comment thread on the _Philosopher’s Magazine_ blog, in which Fuller attempts to defend himself against all comers. Life … Continue reading Continue reading
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Mary Midgley update
She had been due to speak today at “a discussion of Intelligent Design”:http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/mary-midgley-to-debate-id-in-the-uk-october-3rd-kings-college-london/ in London; she is ill and won’t make it. That’s a shame. I would in any case have missed it, since I have to go to a … Continue reading Continue reading
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Dawkins and Midgley, from comments
_Jeremy Ahouse writes:_ Our host points us to Dawkins’ unburying the hatchet in a recent post. Andrew himself admirably covered this episode between Midgley, Dawkins and Mackie ([7], Chapter 5) from the late 70s-early 80s. For fun I reread those … Continue reading Continue reading
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Dawkins, Midgley, disfiguring vanity
I see on Pharyngula that Richard Dawkins has claimed that Mary Midgley “confessed to never reading the Selfish Gene”:http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1664,Against-the-grain-There-are-questions-that-science-cannot-answer,Mary-Midgley-The-Independent#71923 before reviewing it in _Philosophy._ This is untrue, whether or not he believes it. When he first told it me, in, … Continue reading Continue reading
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