Archive for February, 2008

Quote of the Day

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

An electrical engineer is not a voltmeter’s way of making another voltmeter.

Sterelny, Kim. 1994. “Science and Selection”, in Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1994, pp. 45–62.

With a Soft Collar

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Baden-Baden, 25 March 1964

A psychotherapist wished to give a talk on Schubert from the point of view of his own discipline. It was to take place in a very large hotel. The speaker’s rostrum had a curtain in front of it and resembled a puppet theatre. Suddenly, the large hall seemed to be like the [...]