philosomama

There are plenty of houses, in the transitional area of Oxford where I live, whose gardens are what some would call anti-social. Lawns un...

I'm looking forward to three in particular.... Metaphors and Analogies in Evolutionary Biology in Bristol promises to be a good un, 1...

A skua steals milk from an elephant seal's teat It certainly feels like it, at times. Like at 4am when papa is snoring and you’...

See my post over at Auxiliary Hypotheses .

Dear Orso, I expect that, like all humans, you will think there were some things your parents could have done better in their task of raisi...

Analogies are all the rage in Philosophy of Science of late, doncha know. Griffiths and Stotz talk about them, Dennett talks about them ...

Just caught these lot at it on my front wall. The scoundrels!

My garden is being taken over by these badboys, Equisetum arvense. Known popularly as horsetails, or snake grass, they are notorious ...

Or 21 months if we count his time on the inside . I wish, I wish.....I wish I had a proper cake and not just a candle stuck in a grape! ...

Laurie Paul wrote an excellent paper , a few months back, addressing the epistemology of choosing to become a parent. The ethical question,...