Guest Blogger: Prof. Steve Steve My adventures with John Wilkins at the PSA meeting in Vancouver continue. Last evening, Wilkins brought me to a reception where I had the pleasure of mingling with a great many philosophers who have made...
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Posted on November 4, 2006 6:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guest Blogger: Prof. Steve Steve My esteemed Panda's Thumb colleague John Wilkins invited me to attend the PSA meeting in Vancouver. It seemed like a good idea at the time, so I agreed. Last evening started pleasantly enough. I met...
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Posted on November 3, 2006 1:59 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Following up from yesterday's post about how knowledge about the biological basis for X doesn't tell us whether X is to be valued or pathologized, I need to put a few more points (including some questions) on the table. First,...
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Posted on June 28, 2006 12:57 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You'll recall that the Lancaster(California) school district has recently adopted a "science philosophy" that calls for critical thinking about evolutionary theory ... but no other scientific theory in the curriculum. You'll recall that the school district trustees didn't seem to...
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Posted on March 28, 2006 11:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hey, guess what? A California school district has adopted a new science policy aimed at getting students to think more critically ... about evolutionary theory. It is not entirely clear whether members of the Lancaster School District board of trustees...
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Posted on March 26, 2006 8:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I meant to post yesterday on Darwin Day, but I was swept up in doing tasks around the house that some have posited women are better at and/or care about more for reasons that lie deep in our evolutionary past....
Posted on February 13, 2006 6:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's here. The AP story, via Yahoo News: Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District...
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Posted on December 21, 2005 2:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
