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Participate in an experiment - how do you compare to philosophers on solving moral dilemmas?
Category: Philosophy
Eric Schwitzgebel, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and Fiery Cushman, a psychology post-doc at Harvard, are conducting an online experiment which involves comparing philosophers' and non-philosophers' responses to questions about moral dilemmas....
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The Human & The Humanities
Category: Psychology
From The National Humanities Center: The National Humanities Center will host the third and final conference on "The Human & The Humanities," November 13 - 15, 2008, once again attracting scientists and humanities scholars to discuss how developments in science...
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Systems Biology - Obligatory Readings of the Day
Category: Basic Biology
Alex, Dan and John Wilkins have wise things to say about metaphors in biology, Big Biology and a recent article by Sir Paul Nurse....
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Some light weekend reading for you - philosophy of biology :-)
Category: Philosophy
John Wilkins is in Arizona attending a Philosophy of Biology conference (another one of those "I wish I could be there" things) and liveblogging the whole thing: When philosophers really embarrass themselves Liveblogging the conference: Mishler Liveblogging the conference: Piotrowski...
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The Hopeless Monster? Not so fast!
Category: Basic Biology
Olivia Judson wrote a blog post on her NYTimes blog that has many people rattled. Why? Because she used the term "Hopeful Monster" and this term makes many biologists go berserk, foaming at the mouth. And they will not, with...
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Cool new Open Access Journal
Category: History of Science
From Sage Ross, via John Lynch come exciting news about a new Open Access Journal - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Spontaneous Generations is a new online academic journal published by graduate students at...
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Animal Cognition
Category: Cognition
Thanks to John Wilkins, I want to point you to an excellent review on the current state of research (both scientific and philosophical) in Animal Cognition....
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Theory and Practice
Category: Philosophy
First: the difference between theory and practice. Second: the theory. Third: still to come, I hope, a YouTube video of Steinn demonstrating the practice of parallel parking....
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Has the word "gene" outlived its usefulness?
Category: Philosophy
When Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word "gene" back in 1909 (hmmm, less than two years until the Centennial), the word was quite unambiguous - it meant "a unit of heredity". Its material basis, while widely speculated on, was immaterial for...
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