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Are bacteria individuals? Does it matter? I'm planning to pose (and answer) these questions for my upcoming talk at PBUK2014 in Cambrid...

Not that I'm counting the weeks any more but I signed up to these annoying baby-centric apps that send out weekly updates about 'wha...

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has a brand new blog here .

Several pregnant couples have asked me to name my one must-have item once a baby arrives. And at first I said, ah you don't really have ...

Am I showing my age there? Well I've decided that being a baby is just like playing Myst V: End of Ages , on a pc, in 2005. With my li...

Congratulations to Jonathan Birch , who is awesome and who will be fighting the good philosophical fight as assistant professor at LSE!

I'm delighted that Rachael Brown , one of the best young philosophers of biology around, has been appointed lecturer at Macquarie in Syd...

Peter Godfrey-Smith writes in Theory and Reality that scientists love Karl Popper because they enjoy the image he paints of them as ...

Thanks to the inevitable journal processing time, it *looks* like I've been most busy during this maternity leave, with two papers out r...

By George Monbiot Allen Lane, 2013 What's the craziest thing you've ever done?