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Darwin's eponymous finches from the Galapagos have typically taken centre stage in the evidence he gathered to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection, but, in a major new exhibition to celebrate a double anniversary next year, the Natural History Museum has highlighted the remains of two Galapagos mockingbirds. The subtle differences in the plumage of the two birds, lying on a pur...

Flower show

Kew Gardens in London opened last month the first gallery in the world to open all year round dedicated to botanical illustrations. The gallery will showcase art from Kew’s unique historic collections as well as Shirley Sherwood’s contemporary collection of botanical art. The two collections, which complement each other, will allow Kew to show to the public many of its largely unseen works and ...

The Show of Violence

What Incongruent Counterparts Show

In a recent paper, Robert Hanna argues that Kant’s incongruent counterparts example can be mobilized to show that some mental representations, which represent complex states of affairs as complex, do so entirely non-conceptually. I will argue that Hanna is right to see that Kant uses incongruent counterparts to show that there must be a non-conceptual component to cognition, but goes too far in...

Show me the data

The integrity of data, and transparency about their acquisition, are vital to science. The impact factor data that are gathered and sold by Thomson Scientifi c (formerly the Institute of Scientifi c Information, or ISI) have a strong infl uence on the scientifi c community, affecting decisions on where to publish, whom to promote or hire (1), the success of grant applications (2), and even sala...