Evolving Thoughts
One man's struggle against impermanence
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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 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, which he is working into two books. One has been accepted for publication, and will come out in 2008; the other may be contracted soon. He is also interested in cultural evolution, philosophy of religion, Macintosh computers and his kids (they sort of make it a necessity, you know?).
If anyone knows of a tenurable, or even medium term, job in philosophy of biology, let me know. Have library, will travel. The contract runs out soon...
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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- Render Caesar
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- Neil Young gets his own web presence
- Russell's teapot
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- A meaningless numerical coincidence, w00t!
- Podblack Cat
- The name has been changed...
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Blogroll
- Aetiology
- Afarensis
- Brooke McEldowney's blog
- Darwin Central
- De Rerum Natura
- Deanne Taylor's Blog at Nature
- Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- Galactic Interactions
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- John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
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- Musgrave's Astroblogger
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- Pharyngula
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- The Thinking Meat Project
- Thoughts in a Haystack
- Unruled Notebook
- Unscrewing The Inscrutable
Books I'm reading
Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion
Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography
Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality
Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition Series)
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About
Evolution, culture, philosophy and chocolate!
I am primarily interested in biology and its philosophical implications, but I get inspired to blog on religion, antiscience and other topics that happen to pique my interest. You will find that I often return to my main speciality, which is classification, taxonomy and phylogeny, but I try to embarrass myself on other topics as well, just because I can. This blog acts as my scratch pad. What I say here can be stupid, so that kind readers (hello, kind reader) can correct me and educate me before I rush into print.
