Although I seriously doubt anyone who reads this blog for philosophy of science doesn’t yet know about It’s Only a Theory, if this does apply to you, go check it out. It bills itself as “A Group Blog Devoted to General Philosophy of Science”.
Along the same lines Bryan over at Soul Physics has listed some of the few places to find philosophy of science on the net. Yours truly was pleasantly surprised to make the list.
It’s Only a Theory just asked whether the pure philosopher of science is going the way of the dodo. This question is of some interest to me because 1) I like philosophy of science but I have only a passing interest in any particular science, and 2) I’ve gone the way of the dodo:
I never thought I was going to be an academic and it became painfully obvious after a short stint in grad school that being an academic wasn’t for me (or at least the normal academic route isn’t). Now there are a few reasons for this, but one of them was that doing philosophy of science in the way I saw fit wasn’t going to happen. The details of physics or biology just aren’t what interest me: I care about what makes theories work and then downwardly applying any results to the sciences. So I could have been one of these pure phil-sci people, but from my perspective at the time, and apparently it still applies, this won’t get you ahead in academic philosophy.
… but at least my rss reader has some more interesting stuff nowadays, and hopefully yours will too.
