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School of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Sydney

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Recent papers and talks:

• Covid Heterodoxy in Three Layers (version 1)

• Tolerance: A Hierarchical Analysis (with Ben Kerr). Preprint

• Models, Fictions, & Conditionals

* A page with reviews and extra material related to Other Minds

(Photo by Daniel Boud)

 

                                       

Other recent papers:

• The Dual Landscape Model of Adaptation and Niche Construction (with Mark Tanaka and Ben Kerr). Preprint version here.

• On The Coming Plague – a 1997 book review. 

• Varieties of Subjectivity

• Materialism, Then and Now [where ‘then’ is 1968]

• Evolving Across the Explanatory Gap

• Communication and Representation as Sender-Receiver Coordination (with Ron Planer).

* I am now also on twitter.

• In the Beginning There Was Information?

• Individuality, Subjectivity, and Minimal Cognition

• Loss of Music

• Art and Evolution (a book review).

RSS Recent Metazoan posts

  • 89. Tritonia December 13, 2020
    Many of the animals who figure in the text of Metazoa have a photo or drawing in the book as well. An exception is Tritonia, a tiny nudibranch who anchors a historically loaded mimicry-nexus at the end of chapter 3. … Continue reading →
    PGS
  • 88. METAZOA November 22, 2020
    Metazoa has been released, in the US, UK, and Australia. This book is a follow-up to Other Minds, and closely connected, as the name indicates, to this website – a child of the site, in some ways. The US release … Continue reading →
    PGS
  • 87. Ants October 2, 2020
    It feels like an age since the Australian fires of last summer. Since then, the US has faced its own infernos. Those are now subsiding as another Australian summer gears up. Over this year, I’ve regularly visited a particular burned … Continue reading →
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Still [for now] life with feather star and scallop Still [for now] life with feather star and scallops. 

#metazoa #jervisbay #boodereenationalpark #echinoderm
Grevilleas are hard to beat. Back in the water so Grevilleas are hard to beat. 
Back in the water soon, though. 

#grevillea #garden
Seahorse for Cynthia. Seahorse for Cynthia.
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. They seem to be hav Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. 
They seem to be having a great time this summer. 
#cockatoo #birdsofaustralia #metazoa
The tiny otherworldliness of Tritonia. More abou The tiny otherworldliness of Tritonia. 

More about this one at Metazoan.net.
#nudibranch #flypoint #metazoa #scuba
‘Morning.’ #octopus #otherminds #metazoa ‘Morning.’

#octopus #otherminds #metazoa
Metazoa as cake! The cover is printed on sugar. M Metazoa as cake!
The cover is printed on sugar. 
Made by @j.shhhh with help from @lollipopcakesupplies. 

For more about this cover (US edition) and its @rogerswainston image, see Metazoan.net. 

#metazoa, @rodrigocorral
Bees at work. #metazoa #bee Bees at work. 
#metazoa #bee
The gentle luminosity of Thorunna daniellae. Spot The gentle luminosity of Thorunna daniellae. 
Spotted during Nelson Bay Sea Slug Census weekend (though outside of census hours). 
#nudibranch #metazoa #nelsonbay #scuba #seaslugcensus
A good sized octo at Fairlight, Australia. * * * A good sized octo at Fairlight, Australia. 
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#otherminds #octopus #fairlight #metazoa
‘Yes, of course a nudibranch can be a dignified ‘Yes, of course a nudibranch can be a dignified animal.’
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(Doriopsilla peculiaris?)
#nudibranch #nelsonbay #scuba #metazoa
The rampaging octopus of METAZOA, chapter 6. (#oc The rampaging octopus of METAZOA, chapter 6.

(#octopus #metazoa #otherminds #nelsonbay)
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