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Paleontology and Philosophy of Science

Naturalism!

Pragmatism!
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September 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I regret to inform you, if you haven’t already, but the sweet old man David McQueen has passed

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June 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I did not know Dr. Helen De Cruz personally but deeply appreciated her work. What a loss. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...
Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous
Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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helen de cruz has left this world

it is immeasurably lessened by that passing
June 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
June 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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June 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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June 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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June 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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One way or another science will persevere. Whether it’s us doing it or some other creature. We take it for granted at our peril.

Failing to comply to the big 4 and allowing non-epistemic values to encroach them risks our survival as an organism and furthermore a species.
March 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Everything is dum
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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March 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Remember to call your mom sometime
February 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Holotype is a board game about discovering and publishing ancient species!

We had a great time playing and discussing with Brian and Jason from Gaming with Science.

You can listen to our discussion here: www.gamingwithscience.net/e/s2e01-holo...
Cards and game pieces for the board game Holotype. There are discovery cards featuring ancient animals and a player board with researcher figures and tokens to track progress.
February 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Panpsychism doesn’t make new predictions, lacks parsimony, and is unfalsifiable
February 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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February 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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@soundoftheforest.bsky.social do you know what this is? It looks like a cocoon, but I don’t know what bug makes a cocoon like this.
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Science's trumpet sounds and all the extinct animals line up to be classified. From Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886). Image: Pradaldi CC BY-SA 2.0. Flammarion only gets a few pages into his book before calling nearly everyone in a world an unthinking moron.
Engraving of an angelic figure blowing a trumpet, while a selection of prehistoric animals queue up before a thoughtful naturalist.
January 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Chesh is going live with Maanyaa, Dapper Dinosaur, and Landon Noll at 5:30PM CST, 11:30PM UTC.

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January 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Glad to see the first out-of-Vilnius-paleo recurrence plot study of paleontological patterns. This powerful dynamical systems approach started its spread. Here the authors studies temporal structure of Jurassic ichnofacies.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology⚒️
Cross-recurrence plots of Jurassic ichnofacies
January 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
palaeophilo.bsky.social
If the science wars of the 90’s soured my opinion of STS

What since that time would redeem it for me?
January 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM