Genetics and Justice Presentation (slides here) (UW 2005)*
* to access these the username is: farrelly; password: politics
Should the Left Embrace Left-Libertarianism? (CPA 2005)*
“3 Wishes” Video (Feb. 2009) *NEW*
“Framing Ageing and Longevity Science” (Feb. 2009) *NEW*
“No biological problem is fully solved until both the proximate and evolutionary causation has been elucidated”Ernst Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought (1982)“Science marks the emancipation of mind from devotion to customary practices and makes possible the systematic pursuit of new ends. It is the agency of progress in action…. Science has familiarized men with the idea of development, taking effect practically in persistent gradual amelioration of the estate of our common humanity”.John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)“No gentlemen, the difficult thing is not to escape death, I think, but to escape wickedness- that is much more difficult, for that runs faster than death. And now I, being slow and old, have been caught by the slower one; but my accusers, being clever and quick, have been caught by the swifter, badness. And now I and they depart, I, condemned by you to death, but these, condemned by truth to depravity and injustice. I abide by my penalty, they by theirs. Perhaps this was to be so, and I think it is fair enough.”Socrates (399 B.C.) addressing the Athenian jury which condemned him to death for questioning their beliefs (as told by Plato in The Apology)Let no one when young delay to study philosophy, nor when he is old grow weary of his study…And the man who says that the age of philosophy has either not yet come or has gone by is like the man who says that the age for happiness has not yet come to him, or has passed away… We must then mediate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.
Epicurus, 300 BC
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma
Which kills a lot more chaps in fact,
Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked.J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) Geneticist and evolutionary biologist who died of cancer.
