Dibs and dobs

One of the downsides to being old is that your favourite teachers die. I learned most of what I know about the Empiricists, in particular John Locke, from a book by C. B. Martin, who passed away recently. Hat tip to Leiter. I didn't know he spent so much time in Australia.

John Lynch is tantalising me with a workshop I very much want to go to but can't: The 2009 ASU-MBL History of Biology Seminar: Theory in the Life Sciences. It looks like enormous fun (hey, I'm a philosopher: I use philosophical values of "fun"). I Have Views on what counts as a theory in life sciences, and I'd love to see how well they hold up under withering scorn criticism. [If any of my incredibly wealthy readers want to stump for a plane ticket, I can stay with Lynch again. He didn't mind the snoring much...]

The internet filter issue is gathering speed. A good criticism is made by Argosy about the failure of internet filtering in Pakistan and China.

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This is very sad.

I have Martin's The Mind In Nature (2008) right next to me as I read this. I picked it up from my library at my university the day before he died--last Wednesday.

So far, this is an interesting, austere book--much inside to be admired and fruitfully studied. If the publication was anything like the man, what interesting details can you give us about him, John?

Mourning together,

BR

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