Roundup - not just for weeds!

Here is a roundup of links and stuff that I don't have time to blog on right now.

A. C. Grayling replies in a piece of beautiful snark to Steve Fuller's response to his review of Dissent over Descent. Thony is not permitted to point out any further historical inaccuracies...

Leiter reports that a philosopher who blogs, from Yeshiva, James Otteson, may have been removed because he said things on the blog that are sexist, or at least interpreted to be, according to Inside Higher Education.

Will Thomas at Ether Wave Propaganda has the first of a series on the historian Simon Schaeffer, on the historiography of science.

David Brooks, the NYT columnist and PBS commentator from the right, has an interesting article on whether the Republicans have any intellectual foundation for many of their standard talking points. [Hat tip Larry Arnhart]

Jake Young at Pure Pedantry has a takedown of philosopher Thomas Nagel's claim we should, after all, teach about creationism in schools. He rightly points out that Nagel doesn't know these people, the political motives, and indeed much of the science, let alone the propaedeutic exigencies. I was going to do this, but jake did it better.

A couple of papers at the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology are interesting: Lisa Kondrick on the role Thomism played in permitting Catholic schools and universities to teach natural philosophy separately from theology (gotta love an article whose abstract begins "There is no debate over the Theory of Evolution"). And Kevin Padian on how to incorporate more evolution in education through the use of "evograms", diagrams that better represent the nature of multiple lines of evidence for common descent.

Have fun. Back to marking, still....