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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 (4K). Now published. Reply to Akçay.

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

• Food and Farming

• Models, Fictions, & Conditionals

(Photo by Daniel Boud)

 

                                       

Other recent papers:

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

• Gradualism and the Evolution of Experience

•  Reafference and the Origin of the Self in Early Nervous System Evolution, (Jékely, Godfrey-Smith, Keijzer),

• 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

  • 104. Unexpected June 30, 2022
    2022 has been a bad year for diving all over my usual Australian sites so far, with torrential rain, storms, and floods. The water became been so bad that the Weedy Sea Dragons, usually safe at 10 meters or so, … Continue reading →
    PGS
  • 103. A Post to House my 2021 AAP Keynote About Materialism April 8, 2022
    In July 2021 I gave a remote keynote lecture at the Australasian Association of Philosophy‘s annual conference. The talk was called “The Development and Plausibility of Materialism.” It looked at the recent history of materialist (/physicalist) philosophies, from 1950 or … Continue reading →
    PGS
  • 102. Food February 14, 2022
    Linked here is a long essay about food, farming, and vegetarianism. It’s based on talks I gave a few years ago, and on an earlier write-up of those talks (which I also posted here). Both the talks and the essays … Continue reading →
    PGS

Instagram

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Budgerigars. Northern Territory, Australia. Via Budgerigars. 
Northern Territory, Australia. 

Via @tracksbirding. 

#budgerigar #budgie #birdsofaustralia #northernterritory
Brown falcon. Northern Territory, Australia. An Brown falcon. 
Northern Territory, Australia. 

Another @tracksbirding spot and ID. 

#falcon #birdsofaustralia
Finches like a scene out of Greenaway. Timber Cr Finches like a scene out of Greenaway. 

Timber Creek, NT, Australia. 
Spot via @tracksbirding

#finch #gouldianfinch #chestnutbreastedmannikin #birdsofaustralia
Barking owl, female, keeping an eye on things. T Barking owl, female, keeping an eye on things. 

Timber Creek, NT, Australia. Another @tracksbirding spot. 

#owl #barkingowl #birdsofaustralia
Northern Rosella. Pine Creek, NT, Australia Anot Northern Rosella. 
Pine Creek, NT, Australia

Another spot by @tracksbirding. 

#northernrosella #pinecreek #rosella #parrot #birdsofaustralia
Paperbark flycatcher. Top End, Australia. #bird Paperbark flycatcher. 
Top End, Australia. 

#birdsofaustralia #birdsofinstagram #paperbarkflycatcher #northernterritory
Rainbow bee-eater. Darwin, Australia. The next Rainbow bee-eater. 
Darwin, Australia. 

The next week may try the patience of my mostly-marine instagrammers. A bird-watching trip in the Northern Territory. 

#rainbowbeeeater #darwin #birdsofaustralia
An Eastern Whipbird. (In photo attempt approx 400 An Eastern Whipbird. 
(In photo attempt approx 400.. Elusive!)

#whipbird #easternwhipbird #birdsinbackyards #birdsofinstagram
Paris is alive with bookstores. The gentleman wh Paris is alive with bookstores. 

The gentleman who runs this one has Les Prince des Profundeurs in his admittedly very large to-read stack. 

#otherminds #octopus #paris
A clear Sunday at Cabbage Tree Bay a few weeks ago A clear Sunday at Cabbage Tree Bay a few weeks ago. Giant Cuttlefish. 
Two more Nicod Lectures to write. 

#otherminds, #cephalopod, #cuttlefish, #manly, #prixnicod
I have not been on insta much recently, with no di I have not been on insta much recently, with no diving, due to the deluges, and few birds. On the positive side, a lot of time spent working on the Jean Nicod Lectures, which are coming up fast. 

#prixnicod #ecolenormalesuperieure 
#paris #otherminds #metazoa #institutjeannicod
Tenellia incoming... . (Tenellia sibogae, Fly Poin Tenellia incoming...
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(Tenellia sibogae, Fly Point, Nelson Bay, Australia)
#nudibranch #tenellia #scuba #nelsonbay
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