In which Max gets personal and talks about the academic job market in philosophy
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Alien versus Amphibian: War of the World Views?
In which Max explores two titans of nineteenth century geology using fictional characters of their own creation, Lyell’s amphibious being and Suess’s extraterrestrial observer (Part 1 of 3)
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The Importance of Background Theory, or Why James Hall Left Mountains out of his Theory of Mountain Building
In which Max asks whether James Hall really left mountains out of his theory of mountain building (as J.D. Dana famously alleged)
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Another six months of the (De-) Extinct Blog
In which we celebrate the art form of niche academic webloggery by looking back at six more months of Extinct content
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Dinosaur Time
In which Max complains about how prevalent the language of political domination is in popular writing about dinosaurs
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Equilibrium, Disrupted
In which Max finally completes his three-part essay on Stephen Jay Gould and punctuated equilibria, and asks why Gould changed his mind about key features of evolution around 1977
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