My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out today! It offers the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy. Please share; it is free to download for the next 2 weeks!

I had SO much fun talking to Paul for almost 2 hours about my new book on Schrödinger & molecular biology. Easily one of the most enjoyable podcasts I've ever done. Check it out! P.S. CUP has made the PDF of my book free to download for two more weeks. Link is in my pinned post

Note for purists: the original published version had a typo at the bottom of the first page which rendered the last sentence nonsensical. This has now been corrected in the online and PDF versions. The printed version coming out next month will also be the corrected one.

Last chance to download my book for free! It's still available until tomorrow.

Every biological entity is unique; no two are exactly alike. Is this a trivial observation, or a profound metaphysical claim about the living world? Read my new paper & find out! It examines Mayr's famous (yet oft-misunderstood) idea of Population Thinking

One of my intellectual idols passed away yesterday. Nobody has managed to integrate the history and philosophy of biology as effectively and as elegantly as Evelyn Fox Keller. Her work from the 90s/00s is unrivalled and has long served as a model and inspiration for my own. RIP.

An exciting group of fellows @Center4PhilSci this term!

Excited to be spending the Fall semester as Visiting Fellow at @Center4PhilSci 📚🤓

Some of the responses to this are hilarious 😂

The wonderful Hasok Chang (@CambridgeHPS) showing a letter sent to him by Kuhn shortly before he died where he denies that one can simultaneously be a good historian of science and a good philosopher of science. One can certainly be both, just not at the same time (!) #clmpst2023

It begins! #clmpst2023

Same.

@ISHPSSB #ish2023 The best wine last - great final session on Organicism, inspired by Reiss and Ruse’s 2023 book with Thompson, Nicholson, Rupke, Sigsworth commenting.

I had a lovely time presenting in Michael Ruse’s session on “the new biology” today — great discussion with great co-panelists @NicholsonHPBio @GregoryRupik and Paul Thompson. @ISHPSSB #ISHPSSB2023

Dan Nicholson (@NicholsonHPBio) presenting a critical take on Michael Ruse's new book at the #ISHPSSB2023

In Michael Ruse's session on his book The New Biology: A Battle between Mechanism and Organism, I threw in my lot with the Organicists and argued why we might want to go Back to Goethe! Amazing co-panelists! @UofT_IHPST @ISHPSSB #ISHPSSB2023 @1stphilosophy @NicholsonHPBio

Fantastic thread! Great summer reading 👍🏼

As much as I detest the impact factor, I admit that seeing @HPLSjournal making such a jump as I approach the end of my & Giovanni Boniolo’s editorship is impressive… huge thanks to our associate editors, board, fantastic authors & most of all our amazing referees 🙏🙌

One of the most original & incisive thinkers of the past 50 years has died. A master of weaving the history & philosophy of science, he had the unique ability to make any subject he wrote about look irresistible to his readers. What a giant. We shall not look upon his like again.

70 years ago, 3 papers appeared in @Nature under the title ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids’. In an article appearing today (link at end) @matthewcobb and I shed new light on ‘what Watson and Crick really took from Rosalind Franklin’. This thread summarizes our findings.1/23