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Leaving a Legacy: Specimen Collection in Archaeology and Biology

November 27, 2017

Nominally, this is a review of Chapman & Wylie's Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology.  Nominally.

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In Introductory Materials, Joyce Havstad

The Chidi-Ross Spectrum: Role Models in Philosophy and Paleontology

November 20, 2017

What can a paleontologist learn by imitating a fictional philosopher? Maybe more than you'd think!

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In Leonard Finkelman, Thoughts

Remeasuring Pisanosaurus

November 13, 2017

The most important dinosaur no one has ever heard of might not really be a dinosaur

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Tags dinosaurs, phylogeny, Pisanosaurus, Silesaurids, ornithischians, saurischians, ornithoscelida, scoring characters, Connecticut College, philosophy

The missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found

November 6, 2017

Is a lack of something always a lack of evidence? Adrian and Derek don't think so...

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Doing History & Philosophy of Science like Paleontology

October 30, 2017

People in the history and philosophy of science often wonder what role particular episodes in science's history can play in their work. Adrian suggests that paleontology might have some answers...

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Stop the Clocks (and the Other Geologic Timescale Metaphors, Too)!

October 23, 2017

Do we need to change the metaphors we use to understand geologic timescales? Some philosophy of time might help to answer that question!

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In Leonard Finkelman, Thoughts Tags metaphor in science, metaphysics, epistemology
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