Month: October 2012
Chris Mooney’s The Republican Brain: Self-Therapeutic and Self-Refuting
The circular, self-serving nature of Mooney’s argument is hard to miss.
The Republican Brain vs. Science Left Behind
One day recently, I came into my office to find that two newly published books I had ordered arrived on the same day.
Jacques Barzun, RIP
Reading his Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage was transformative for me.
Biology Direct Paper: We Must Abandon Darwinism, but Also Explanation
Arlin Stoltzfus opens his paper by marveling at the “baroque and apparently gratuitous complexity” we see in biology.
Nagel Asks, Is the World Really Knowable?
Thomas Nagel’s important Mind and Cosmos has already received some attention on ENV — regarding Nagel’s respectful comments on intelligent design in particular.