Greg Priest
@gregpriest.bsky.social
PhD in history and philosophy of science (also JD and MLA), Stanford.
Biology, complexity, diagramming. Philosophy of history.
Curates these BlueSky feeds:
History and Philosophy of Biology
Complexity Science
Philosophy of History and Historiography
Biology, complexity, diagramming. Philosophy of history.
Curates these BlueSky feeds:
History and Philosophy of Biology
Complexity Science
Philosophy of History and Historiography
Mine too. He kind of still is. Dreamy!
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Mine too. He kind of still is. Dreamy!
Thanks for the feed boost!
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thanks for the feed boost!
I might do. Darwin‘s demon was actually fascinating. He started out as sort of an amalgam of Laplace‘s demon and Paley‘s God. But by the 1860s and 70s, he had lost both the omniscience of Laplace‘s demon and the omnipotence of Paley‘s God, and replaced them with a being firmly situated in history.
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I might do. Darwin‘s demon was actually fascinating. He started out as sort of an amalgam of Laplace‘s demon and Paley‘s God. But by the 1860s and 70s, he had lost both the omniscience of Laplace‘s demon and the omnipotence of Paley‘s God, and replaced them with a being firmly situated in history.
In my dissertation, I compared Darwin’s demon to Laplace’s—favoring D’s. I didn’t discuss Maxwell’s.
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
In my dissertation, I compared Darwin’s demon to Laplace’s—favoring D’s. I didn’t discuss Maxwell’s.