Harvard professor Marc Hauser (author of Moral Minds), about whom I blogged last July, has taken a leave of absence from his post at Harvard while the university looks into questions about the data backing up papers of his, dating back to the mid 90s at least.
Well, I’m embarrassed to admit how long it took me, considering how long I’ve been eligible, but today I’m an official member of the NASW.
Larry Moran thinks Jerry Coyne stepped in it. Again. I hope this was just an attempt to (over-)simplify evolution for the readers of The Nation. In that case it might be (just) excusable. But I can’t wait until the creationists get a hold of this review. They’ll be delighted to learn that, according to Jerry… Continue reading Coyne v. Futuyma
Now that both sides have vented, Brandon Watson weighs in with some thoughts on Sam Harris’s TED Talk.
Ed Feser has a great dissection of the “Nothing but…” approach to philosophy and science. And that is, of course, exactly what the “mechanical” conception of the world that the early modern philosophers put in place of the Scholastics’ Aristotelian philosophy of nature made possible. The world was reconceived as a machine or collection of… Continue reading
