|
You are here |
imotiv8.uk | ||
| | | | |
scienceblogs.com
|
|
| | | | | Here is a working list of species concepts presently in play. I quote "Concepts" above because, for philosophical reasons, I think there is only one concept - "species", and all the rest are conceptions, or definitions, of that concept. I have christened this the Synapormorphic Concept of Species in (Wilkins 2003). More under the fold: A Summary of 26 species concepts | |
| | | | |
www.wiringthebrain.com
|
|
| | | | | The reductionist perspective on biology is that it all boils down to physics eventually. That anything that is happenin... | |
| | | | |
undsoc.org
|
|
| | | | | The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers... | |
| | | | |
scottaaronson.blog
|
|
| | | Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds that we could live in and giving each one of them whimsical names. In other words, no one has done... | ||