Some light weekend reading for you - philosophy of biology :-)

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
Liveblogging the conference: Jim Griesemer
Liveblogging the conference: Bill Wimsatt
Liveblogging the conference: Stephen Peck
Liveblogging the conference: Jay Odenbaugh
Liveblogging the conference: Julia Clarke and Todd Grantham
Liveblogging the conference: Jon Seger
Liveblogging the conference: Roberta Millstein
Postblogging the conference

Lots of interesting stuff on ecology, populations, barcoding...