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Abstract: Mary Shepherd says that motion (or the power of motion) is a sixth sense (or sixth sense organ). I argue that she is talking about proprioception. Shepherd thus holds that proprioception plays a crucial role in acquiring knowledge of the external world, as well as in acquiring the concepts involved. I further argue that proprioception plays a […] |
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Abstract The fitness landscape or adaptive landscape is an iconic metaphor of evolutionary biology that has also been influential in unrelated areas of science, such as psychology and operations research. I present a brief history of the concept in biology, and discuss how early theory predicts that landscapes with many peaks – rugged landscapes – […] |
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Abstract: This talk opens in Hanoi on the eve of decolonization of French Indochina and the division of Vietnam into a Communist-controlled North, and a US-backed South. After decades of administering a state-run opium monopoly, in late 1953 the French government and its Vietnamese allies moved to ban all opium use and to require all […] |
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Abstract: In 1904, Ellen Richards introduced “euthenics.” By 1912, Lewellys Barker, director of medicine and physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, would tell the New York Times that the “task of eugenics” and the “task of euthenics” was the “Task for the Nation.” Alongside the emergence of hereditarian eugenics, where fate was firmly rooted in heredity, […] |
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