Hey, University of Missouri-Columbia readers: Elliot Sober is coming your way. At 4:00 on the 20th (this week!), Elliot Sober will be speaking on Evolution versus Intelligent Design. It should be fun; somebody report back to me, OK?
Closer to my home, Steve Pinker will be speaking at the Minneapolis Public Library at 7:00 on the same day on 'The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature.' I might be able to make it to that one.
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Are you going to be able to come to the Twin Cities today for Kristine Harley, OM AKA the Amused Muse's presentation on her trip to the Galapagos Islands?
I'll try to make it to the Elliot Sober lecture.
I'm going to be at Sober's lecture and the affiliated philosophy of biology conference the two days after that - (check the UM philosophy website for info). I'll report back if I find the time.
Thanks for the heads up! I'm a student at Mizzou and will be delighted to attend the lecture.
At Steven Pinker's lecture, someone ask him how, in his book "The Blank Slate," he came to swallow the Julian Simon innumeracy that human intelligence will be able to take care of exponential population growth in perpetuity in the future.