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 My essay on the Post-Human body, now freely available  online  at Public Philosophy Journal 'The Philosopher'  thephilosopher1923.o...

    Last semester I had my 'Feminist Philosophy' students read Woollard's prize-winning 2021 paper, 'Mother knows best: Pre...

With massive relief I can report that Chapter 7 has been defeated. I slept on it, and conferred with my wonderful ex-student, Dr Will Morgan...

  So yesterday went really well. To my surprise, i did everything i'd planned!  My brain was working, i made some good headway on the ta...

  UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS  H istory & Philosophy of Science Seminar Series   Semester 1, 2020-21 Wednesdays, 3.15-5pm UK time       ...

Hello world! It's been a while. I have just published an article that I'm quite pleased with, in  Analyse & Kritik . It is a re...

Alex Byrne has kindly sent me a response to my post on his article , which I here reproduce in full, with his permission and his original em...

Anne Fausto-Sterling is a developmental biologist who has spent decades exploring the biological and social factors that work together to pr...

I came across this campaign on Facebook a while ago, but it's taken on more poignancy now that Mike Pence is not merely Governer of Ind...

Well there hasn't been an awful lot of blogging going on around here lately. The events of last summer just sucked the words out of me. ...

Th is is t he latest in my series of blog posts summarising the talks and responses that took pla ce at the meeting 'Inheritance and c...

Dr Jonathan Birch from the LSE is working on a book called 'The Philosophy of Social Evolution'. For this meeting Birch drew on his...

Dr Simon Powers is a member of the Lehmann group in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne, although he orig...

Dr Francesca Merlin from the IHPST (CNRS, Paris) gave a talk based on her forthcoming paper which evaluates recent calls to extend our noti...

For the first guest talk of the meeting, we heard from Dr Heikki Helanterä, who is a biologist from the University of Helsinki, working on e...

Apparently some short girl called Clarke dreamt up the idea of linking inheritance and cooperation for the focus of a conference. An audio...

Dr Oliver Scott Curry from Oxford's Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology came and gave a  really interesting talk to my ...

To explain the origin of any transition, it is necessary to identify some phenotypic change that brings about a new fitness benefit.

Microbiology / kin selection peeps, I need your help understanding something. Here is a sentence I came across in a paper from the Stereln...

At the BSPS...... Elselijn Kingma explored  a 'fetal container view' of the relationship between a mother and her unborn offsprin...