Professor Sarkar will be speaking on a subject that you folks will be specially poised to appreciate this Thursday at 2:30PM in the Whitewater Room. Hope to see you there.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Sahotra Sarkar Lecture on Campus
Professor Sarkar will be speaking on a subject that you folks will be specially poised to appreciate this Thursday at 2:30PM in the Whitewater Room. Hope to see you there.
INPC Reminder
Hey folks, just a reminder that the 12th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on "The Environment" starts on Friday May 1st (at WSU) and continues over the weekend in the UI Commons. For more information, check out the website. If you'd like to be more involved, feel free to get in touch with me.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Comments about Comments
I meant to mention something about this last time: commentators are not doing quite what is typically expected. That's my fault for not being clearer as we've gone along — I'm not holding it against you — but you should know how it's done.
Commentary is not generally interactive; they are not a series of questions. Rather, comments are delivered to the speaker first in writing, in the form of a narrative. This narrative may, of course, contain questions or requests for clarification for the speaker, but it should not need to await those answers to make sense. You might think of the commentary as the beginnings of a reply paper (like Lange 2004, for example).
There will be numerous examples of commentary at the upcoming INPC, if you'd like to see some examples of this. For those of you with professional academic aspirations, volunteering to be commentators at conferences such as this is a good way of getting your foot in the door, so to say.
Commentary is not generally interactive; they are not a series of questions. Rather, comments are delivered to the speaker first in writing, in the form of a narrative. This narrative may, of course, contain questions or requests for clarification for the speaker, but it should not need to await those answers to make sense. You might think of the commentary as the beginnings of a reply paper (like Lange 2004, for example).
There will be numerous examples of commentary at the upcoming INPC, if you'd like to see some examples of this. For those of you with professional academic aspirations, volunteering to be commentators at conferences such as this is a good way of getting your foot in the door, so to say.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Race Resources
There is a quite a wealth of information on the science of race online. Here's an excellent place to start: http://www.racesci.org/. Richard Lewontin also lectured on the topic a bit ago (video).
See also the reading list for Sally Haslanger and Koffi Maglo's course at MIT on Race.
See also the reading list for Sally Haslanger and Koffi Maglo's course at MIT on Race.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Lewontin at Book People
I'm told that Book People has a bunch of copies of Lewontin's The Triple Helix. Please pick yours up soon --- I don't know that they're saving them for us or something.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Toxic Newts!
I came across this video (from a PBS program) a while ago that presents a lovely example of how "evolutionary arms races" can produce dramatic adaptations. Fun stuff!
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