Back when there was a hereditarian Left…
Over at my Substack I posted a much longer review of The Genetic Lottery (you can find my shorter review at UnHerd). That prompted a reader to point me to […]
The End of the Scientific Culture
In the 1990s there broke out something now called the “Science Wars.” Basically it pitted the bleeding edge of “Post-Modernism” against traditional scientific scholars, who were generally adherents of a naive sort of positivism. By the latter, I’m not saying that these were necessarily people steeped in Carnap, Popper or Lakatos. Very few scientists know […]
On the instrumental uses of Arabic science
A new piece in Aeon, Forging Islamic science: Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science have found their way into the most august of libraries and history books. How? is quite rich food for thought. The nuts & bolts of the story are interesting enough, but perhaps the bigger picture is the emergence of (to borrow a phrase) […]