Talk:Elliott Sober

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Sober is becoming important in philosophy of biology, so I thought I get an article started on him and see if others could start contributing overviews of his philosophy which are drawn from his publications. -- User:Brinticus

Brinticus--good start. Sober's been influential for over 20 years, so I changed the entry to indicate that his notoriety is not recent. 131.210.4.95 21:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

This brief article about an upcoming lecture on intelligent design [1] indirectly lead me here to look him up. This is the first I have heard or read about him. Should this lecture be linked or mentioned? Mr Christopher 04:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

I added some info on Sober's work in Simplicity -- he has published extensively on this particular subject. It could do with a lot more work, though. Sober's ideas in the field are very sound... Palthrow 04:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Glad to see this page is starting to get some modification. Perhaps a student of Sober which knows his work could contribute a basic overview of the development of his thought. User:Brinticus 26 May 2006

Phantom book:

[http://books.google.com/books?id=4eoPHQAACAAJ Learning from Logical Positivism
By Elliot Sober
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004
ISBN 0521012112, 9780521012119

Whatever happened to this book? I don't think it was ever published, all the same I've read a citation to it by Peter Godfrey-Smith and I found this google books entry. --Firefly322 (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

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