Some bloggable items not worth a post on their own:
George MacDonald Fraser died. The author of the Flashman series, which I loved. Creating one of the best rogues in literature, Fraser also managed to get the history right.
Peter Hare died. Hare was one of the leading moral philosophers of the 20th Century.
Bradie and Harms have updated the excellent SEP entry on evolutionary epistemology.
Godfrey-Smith and Sterelny have updated their excellent piece on biological information also in SEP. I missed this at the time (October).
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