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New essay! The goal? To use a pair of fictional geologists— Lyell's "amphibious being" and Suess's "extraterrestrial observer"— to learn about the relationship between the two most important geologists of the 19th C. (It's fun, really!) extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/3…
I do not like the Facts vs Opinions dichotomy and I think people should stop peddling it. In this blog post I link to some detailed objections I find persuasive, and also outline my big picture objection. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2024/03/facts-…
There's a new article in Aeon about the role that (human) prehistory plays in making sense of the present (specifically, the nuclear age). It's a decent read but I'm still grumpy about it! Find the link and the grumpiness below extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
When you want to better understand when scientific controversies bear fruit, what do you do? Examine angiosperms of course! Here the talented Katherine Valde looks at the case of angiosperm origins to understand the pitfalls of epistemic peer disagreement extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/3…
Read (for free!) James DiFrisco's BJPS Popper Prize-winning paper here 👇
The prize-winning article, "Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution," is FREE to read for a limited time: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
The Holocene continues... Read all about it (arguments for and against the Anthropocene, "the philosophy of the Golden Spike," the meaning of deep time) on Extinct extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
Forget the Oscars, the winner of the 2023 𝐁𝐉𝐏𝐒 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 has been announced… thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-po… #philsci
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BJPS Popper Prize 2023 | Auxiliary Hypotheses | BJPS
The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 BJPS Popper Prize
Join us at #ScienceinStorytelling for our 'Prehistoric Planet: Where Science Drives the Story' panel! Dr Darren Naish & PP team discuss their style of working together to create the Apple TV+ series, Prehistoric Planet. events.wildscreen.org/products/scien…
William Whewell died on this date in 1866. What better way to honor him than to revisit our essay on Whewell's philosophy of palaetiology? extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/1…
March 6, 1866, died #OTD, philosopher & historian of #science William Whewell. He coined many concepts in #geology & was especially interested in mineralogy. The mineral gallery of the Sedgwick Museum (and the mineral Whewellite) is named after him 💎 sedgwickmuseum.cam.ac.uk/?page=whewell-…
New on Extinct: the talented Marilynn Johnson of UCSD shares an edited excerpt of her recent book, Adorning Bodies (Bloomsbury, 2022)! extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/3…
Some new news items (so, just news items): First, an upcoming conference: extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202… And a little piece on dinosaur names: extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
New #book 📚 Gísli Pálsson (April 2024): The Last of Its Kind. In 1858, two ornithologists set out to find the great auk. Gísli Pálsson’s intriguing account of their failed quest argues it may have shaped modern ideas about extinction and conservation press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
There will be a conference on the philosophy of the paleosciences, hosted by Adrian Currie of the University of Exeter, Aug 12–24. The conference will take place in Exeter with a retreat along the Jurassic Coast. Travel costs for speakers will be covered. extinctblog.org/palaeonews/202…
New on Extinct: the talented Kelle Dhein revisits George Simpson's posthumously published sci-fi novella, and asks what it tells us about his philosophy of evolution. Also: "tiny reptilian brains," "citizenship schools," and American exceptionalism... extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/2…
Oh I worked hard on this one y'all. So I have a REQUEST. If you only read one essay this year on why James Hall didn't *really* leave mountains out of his theory of mountain building, please make it this one! (You'll like it. I promise) extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/1…
Extinct has now been re-launched for a whole year! Thanks for reading, and here is a little rundown of the past six months of scintillating niche-academic webloggery extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/1…
To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the naming of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus bucklandii, five of our key dinosaur Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society are FREE to access until the end of Feb! tandfonline.com/journals/tmps2… #dinosaurs #Megalosaurus
Bruce Lieberman and I discuss Steve’s use of Galton’s polyhedron—renaming it Gould’s Polyhedron—in our forthcoming book “Macroevolutionaries” @Trilolight
🧵🪸📖 1/ A brief thread to one of the most useful metaphors in evolutionary biology [Galton’s polyhedron] using quotes from chapter 5 of Gould’s “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory” #evolution
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1/ A brief thread to one of the most useful metaphors in evolutionary biology [Galton’s polyhedron] using quotes from chapter 5 of Gould’s “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”
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