Reminded by a point I raised in my last post, I realised that I have apparently failed to mention an article of mine that is forthcoming in a University of Chicago volume edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry – The Philosophy of Pseudoscience. I have now put an almost final draft of that paper on… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
An old post of mine - from the middle of 2007 – has recently been replied to by someone who takes their astrology very seriously. Anthony Louis, who has published books on astrology and tarot, runs quite an active blog on the topics. His somewhat curious response is quite short so I’ll quote it in… [Read more…]
January 11, 2012
Just finished a first draft of an article that is to go into a volume edited by Dimitris Xygalatas and William McCorkle. The volume is to be called Mental Culture: Toward a Cognitive Science of Religion and is to show how modern cognitive science of religion is connected back to traditional approaches to the study… [Read more…]
December 9, 2011
Back in 2009 I went to a European Human Behaviour and Evolution Conference in St Andrews. One of the highlights of that conference and definitely the bit of it that has stuck in my mind was a paper presented by Christine Caldwell. Caldwell talked about a methodology that she’s been using to test claims about… [Read more…]
December 7, 2011
I started at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in June 2007, just about four and a half years ago. My project, at the beginning, was to look at superstitions and to try to understand them as cognitive, evolved phenomena. Fairly quickly, I came to the conclusion that superstitions were cognitive byproducts. Soon thereafter I came into… [Read more…]
November 25, 2011
I have been rather quiet. And for good reason. After several years, the book is very close to finished and I have been focussing all my efforts on getting it completed. Before I send it off to the publisher, however, I thought I’d share the three quotes I am thinking of putting at the beginning… [Read more…]
August 8, 2011
A while ago I received an email asking me to put up a link on my blog to an article that someone has written concerning 25 myths regarding religion. Busy as I was with marking and everything else that the end of semester entails, I did not look at the article. I have now, however,… [Read more…]
August 5, 2011
On several occasions Dawkins has used the example of an originally random string that rapidly becomes a recognisable sentence so long as any random changes in the string that are in accord with the predetermined sentence are retained. He uses the example to talk about random evolution leading to adaptive function thanks to selection. Together… [Read more…]
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