How can the paleoecology of extinction help us understand modern extinctions and climate change? Patrick Forber has some answers...
Read MoreOf Sea-Urchins and Computer Models
Adrian discusses how paleontologists sometimes use computer models to test hypotheses about the features of animals which lived in the distant past...
Read MoreExcavating Hidden Truths
How is a philosophical argument like a Psittacosaurus model? Our "Back to School" month closes out with a suggestion of how to use paleoart to introduce philosophy.
Read MoreSite-Specific Teaching in New England's Dinosaur Country
Should where you teach matter to what and how you teach?
Read MoreTeaching Philosophy of Science... With Science!
Adrian has some thoughts on how to get humanities students to engage with science...
Read MoreTransformation, Persistence, and Identity
Are birds dinosaurs? Matt Haber shows how tackling this question raises a big metaphysical question: the nature of identity. He draws lessons about how the paleontological distinginction between typology and transformation, on how to do metaphysics, and on how philosophy can challenge our preconceptions.
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