From The Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series comes A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography edited by Aviezer Tucker. It looks fascinating, especially essay 36 on Darwin...
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I was very pleased to receive today my copy of this book:
A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, edited by A. Tucker. Chichester UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
I got it because on pp 405-415 is my essay "Darwin", which I am rather proud of. I have long thought that Darwin as a…
My favourite subject as an undergraduate was Historiography, which covered historical method and the nature of history. I was fortunate to be invited to contribute to the Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography by the editor, Aviezer Tucker, which is being launched in…
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"One cannot have too many good bird books"
--Ralph Hoffmann, Birds of the Pacific States (1927).
The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of a wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that…
Been a while, but I thought I'd start doing this again now and then. First, the serious link. If you haven't read about the doctor and five nurses who have been unjustly sentenced to death in Libya, you should. Unfortunately, I don't think any amount outcry in this country will change the verdict,…
So humble you are...
You can't possibly think I was self-promoting!?
You can't possibly think I was self-promoting!?
Perish the thought!
I on the other hand, would be shamelessly self-promoting any publication of mine. Not least because of the novelty value and ego boost. :)
It isn't self-promotion ... it is a charitable redirection of our focus towards another aspect of his person. If he was a model, it would be like accenting his legs one day to give us a break for staring at his shoulders. Yeah ... that's it ...
What a shame, when you click on the buy now it reports "product not found".
So the question is; when will it be available to order?
I vaguely seem to remember having heard of John S. Wilkins somewhere but whose this Darwin guy?