I am currently viewing “Ontology of the Gene, Information in Biology, Units of Selection” by https://youtube.com/@twohandsphilosophy#.

[ #WatchAlong #LiveTooting ] I will be quoting this Toot with #responses to and #questions about the information presented by the #video.

The description of the video at https://youtu.be/tdtRNff44jY# is as follows (note that hashtags have been included for ease of federated topical searches):

This is Two Hands #Philosophy, in which my friends and I discuss philosophical topics to #learn from each other and from our readings. This #discussion with Rodrigo Vanegas and Theral Timpson considered the following topics and philosophers: the #ontology of the #gene, information in #biology, and units of selection after reading papers by Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Elizabeth Lloyd.

Hull, Ruse (2007) The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology - https://philpapers.org/rec/HULTCC-2
Griffiths, Stotz (2007) Gene - https://philpapers.org/rec/GRIG
Godfrey-Smith (2007) Information in Biology - https://philpapers.org/rec/GODIIB
Lloyd (2007) Units and Levels of Selection – https://philpapers.org/rec/LLOUAL-2
Thomson (1971) A Defense of Abortion – https://philpapers.org/rec/THOADO-2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
Pande (2018) How to Engineer Biology – https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/how-to-engineer-biology
Timpson (2024) The Gene and The Podcast - https://www.fivewiththeral.com/p/the-gene-and-the-podcast-interview
Mendelspod – https://www.mendelspod.com
Information – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information
Biological Information – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-biological
#Reductionism in Biology – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology
#Nominalism – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics
#Mechanism – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/science-mechanisms
Beauty - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty
#Dawkins (1976) The Selfish Gene – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Dennett, Daniel – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
Dupré – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dupr%C3%A9
Bacon, Francis – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon
Popper, Karl – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper
Scruton, Roger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton

#DavidAlbert - What #Exists?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfIm9tWIT8&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #Physics #PhilosophyOfScience #Ontology #Metaphysics #Realism #Numbers #Nominalism #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Particles #Fields #Electromagnetism #WaveFunction #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Twitter censorship is still alive.
[Update 23 April 2023: It looks like the ban was revoked].

I wrote a long thread on Nominal and Natural Kinds, which are concepts developed by Saul Kripke around 1970. Kripke revolutionised Modal Logic at the age of 17 in 1957, providing completeness proofs making modal logic as sound as the first-order logic developed by Bertrand Russell with Principia Mathematica in 1910. Until then, analytic philosophers had followed Russell in thinking that modal logic was mythical talk.

How could this lead to censorship? The thread started when I heard a discussion on the Russian Philosopher Dugin, where his translator explained how Dugin drew a link from Occam's Nominalism to #Liberalism, the #trans debate and the current #geopolitical situation. That seemed a bit of a stretch, but it had the advantage of getting me interested in #Nominalism.

Dugin is known as Putin’s philosopher, and the trans debate is a controversial topic. Could it explain the #censorship?
Yet having porn, violence, and other crazy stuff available to all has never bothered Twitter. Could it be that analytic philosophy is just too explosive, too revolutionary?

There is only one lonely tweet at the end of that thread which remains visible. I was just quoting Steven Pinker on how philosophers like to question anything, from God to causation... Pinker was quoting a blog post by another MIT professor titled "Philosophy's No-Go-Zone". What could that be?

You can check it out here: https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1648738158438121472

If you follow me on #Twitter, I think you will see the full content. But if you don't follow me, then you will see what is shown in the picture below, and you none of my Tweets using the search box!

#TodaysAcronym ☞ #TIYBON

This Is Your Brain On #Nominalism