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A bad diagnosis [or] Autism implies canism
10/11/23
The New York Times has an item by Andy Martin which suggests that philosophy and autism are somehow connected. The idea is that "autism can be defined, at one level, by a lack of understanding" and that "given the way humans interact with one another, there is always a potential myste -
A note on Alice and Paul
10/11/21
Jender points to "The Royal Society's lost women scientists", an interesting article in today's Guardian by historian Richard Holmes. He mentions, among other people, "Alice Bodington, the fearless Darwinian author of Studies in Evolution."
My curiosity pique -
A prickly example [or] Cholla at ya' later
10/11/16
I began working on several papers when I arrived in Pittsburgh. They have spiraled out of control and - gathering mass like the proverbial snowball - are on their way to being a book manuscript. The draft now totals up to about 50K words.
Even in a book, there are nice bits that do not fi -
Metaphysics grad conference
10/11/15
The UAlbany philosophy grad students have announced the theme and date for this year's grad philosophy conference. This is their 4th annual conference.
These conferences are pretty much entirely student organized, and they have worked well. The students (both ours and the ones who co -
Montreal, ho!
10/11/02
I leave tomorrow for the PSA in Montreal. In between deep thought and bottomless beer, I'll be giving a paper. So I posted a draft.
It's a brief discussion of Eric Barnes' Paradox of Predictivism, focusing especially on arguments that (a) successful prediction is some reaso
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A bad diagnosis [or] Autism implies canism
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