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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 3E)

• Philosophers and Other Animals (in Aeon, with extra notes here).

• Models, Fictions, & Conditionals

• Gradualism and the Evolution of Experience

(Photo by Daniel Boud)

 

                                       

Other recent papers:

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

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

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

• 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

  • 92. The Nest April 8, 2021
    This is a nest that has just been established by a pair of galahs – a kind of parrot – down behind our garden. I think the nest is new because this is the first time I’ve seen galahs at … Continue reading →
    PGS
  • 91. Ephemera March 24, 2021
    The Australian bushfires of last summer had very few positive effects, but above you can see one. These are pink flannel flowers, Actinotus forsythii, which have been blooming over the past month in countless numbers on high ridges in the … Continue reading →
    PGS
  • 90. Melville, Cranmer, Wycliffe February 5, 2021
    The epigraph to Metazoa is a passage from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. The narrator, Ishmael, is describing the task of watching for whales from high on a mast. “Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that … Continue reading →
    PGS

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A banded shrimp at Fly Point last month. The frie A banded shrimp at Fly Point last month. 
The friendliest I’ve met since the central character of METAZOA, chapter 4.
#bandedshrimp #metazoa #scuba #nelsonbay
The last time a pink flannel flower bloomed here, The last time a pink flannel flower bloomed here, the rangers say, was 1957. 
No digital cameras, Richie Benaud in his prime....
More information and photos at Metazoan.net. 
#flannelflower #bluemountains
A particularly delicate Nelson Bay seahorse. #met A particularly delicate Nelson Bay seahorse. 
#metazoa #scuba #seahorse #nelsonbay
A ‘Blue Tiger’ I think. (Tirumala hamata) Bris A ‘Blue Tiger’ I think. (Tirumala hamata)
Brisbane, Australia. 
#butterfly #tirumala #metazoa
Undulating arms. #octopus #otherminds #nelsonbay Undulating arms. 

#octopus #otherminds #nelsonbay
Red-browed finches, with and without. (Fading li Red-browed finches, with and without. 

(Fading light, tiny, and disappearing off the far end of my zoom, but they are irresistable birds. Sans-brow is an age difference, apparently, not sex.)

#finch #redbrowedfinch #bluemountains
The fabulous Micromelo undata. Fly Point, Austral The fabulous Micromelo undata. 
Fly Point, Australia. 
(Head at the top.)
#micromelo #fnelsonbay #gastropod #scuba
A red-browed finch, aspiring to a red brow. #fin A red-browed finch, aspiring to a red brow. 

#finch #birdsofaustralia
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
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