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Grumpy John Wilkins is an aged, eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow Sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland, in Australia. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books. Species Definitions: A Sourcebook (Peter Lang) will come out in 2008; Species: A History of an Idea (University of California Press) will appear, it is hoped, in early 2009. He is also interested in cultural evolution, philosophy of religion, Macintosh computers and his kids.

If anyone knows of a tenurable, or even medium term, job in philosophy of biology, let me know. Have library, will travel. The contract ran out ...

This blog is designed to host any random thoughts that happen to be passing through my forebrain at a given moment. So there will be errors...

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New Philosophy of Biology Forum

Category: EvolutionGeneral ScienceLogic and philosophyPhilosophy of ScienceSpecies and systematics
Posted on: June 26, 2007 9:52 PM, by John S. Wilkins

Run by Matt Haber at Utah, it's a forum for discussions of work in progress, student matters like employment, tech issues and biology and society topics, to mention only a few. It's in alpha form now, but expect it to grow. The sidebar blurb is this:

Thank you for visiting the Philsophy of Biology Cafe. Our forums are currently under construction and are in ALPHA testing stages.

This forum is a place to come, sit down, and have a hearty swig of the many topics concerning philosophy and biology.
We try to keep things in a coffee-house theme (in case you didn't notice) so if you have any concerns, please contact one of our baristas (moderators).

We expect our forums to be ready for Beta testing by the beginning of June and we expect the forums to be fully operational by the end of July

Please feel free to post, and thanks for stopping by

Via Rob Skipper's hpb etc.

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