Interviews

John Wilkins: Biology and Philosophy

Jun 29 2008 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

John S. Wilkins is a sessional lecturer at the University of Queensland in philosophy. He runs a philosophy of biology blog, Evolving Thoughts, which is part of the Seed Magazine stable of science blogs. John worked in publishing and printing for 25 ye...

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Per Ahlberg: Evolution and Palaeontology

Jun 25 2008 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Per Ahlberg is Professor of Evolutionary Organismal Biology at Uppsala University in Sweden and a prominent critic of so-called alternatives to evolutionary theory. I was fortunate enough to be able to ask him about his work in paleontology and why he...

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Bradley Monton: Debating the Philosophy of Science

Jun 04 2007 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Bradley Monton is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder who specialises in the philosophy of science, particularly the philosophy of physics. He is the author of several papers looking at the intersection of the philosophy...

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James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency

Jun 19 2006 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

James Howard Kunstler is a former writer for Rolling Stone and the author of nine novels and four non-fiction books, including his most recent, The Long Emergency. In it, Mr. Kunstler portrays a 21st century in which the southwest United States is larg...

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Del Ratzsch: Science and Design

Jun 18 2006 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Del Ratzsch is professor of philosophy and chair of the Philosophy Department at Calvin College. He specialises in the philosophy of science and has written extensively on issues surrounding design arguments. - Interviewed for TGL* in 2006 TGL: How...

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John Dupré: The Disunity of Science

Jun 14 2006 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

John Dupré is a professor of philosophy of science in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at Exeter University in the UK, and also the director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society. I was able to ask him about several keys areas of...

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Michael Ruse: Science and Religion

Jun 10 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University, Tallahassee. He kindly agreed to be interviewed on the subje...

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Thomas Lessl: Science and Rhetoric

Jun 07 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Thomas Lessl is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. His work involves the rhetoric of science, looking in particular at the meeting of science with the public sphere. I was fortunate enough to be...

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Jolly Mathen: Incompleteness and Scientific The...

Jun 05 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Jolly Mathen is an independent philosophical researcher residing in San Fransisco. His paper On the Inherent Incompleteness of Scientific Theories is a fascinating look at the consequences of some important concepts in the philosophy of science and mat...

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Gonzalo Munévar: Feyerabend and Beyond

Jun 03 2005 08:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Gonzalo Munévar is a professor in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Communication at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, and a former student of the philosopher of science Paul K. Feyerabend. He is the author of sever...

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Aviezer Tucker: Our Knowledge of the Past

Jun 02 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Aviezer Tucker was a research associate at the department of Philosophy and Law of the Australian National University in Canberra (at the time of interview) but has previously worked in America, Europe and Asia and was then a lecturer in the School of...

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Stephen D. Snobelen: Newton Reconsidered

Jun 01 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Stephen David Snobelen is Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a founder member of the Newton project and author of many fascinating papers on Newton's alchemy...

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Keith Jenkins: Rethinking History

Jun 01 2004 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Interviews

Keith Jenkins is Professor of Historical Theory at the University College, Chichester, and author of several books on historiography, including the recently reissued Re-thinking History. His work has served to bring criticisms of traditional philosophy...

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