Derek D. Turner

My friend and colleague Ross Morin has just finished recording season 2 of his podcast, Filmmaking Unpacked. Season 1 was awesome (and very philosophical). Philosophers and anyone interested in creative work might find this worth listening to!
www.rossmorinfilm.com/unpacked.html

Is a River Alive? A <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller<br />A #1 <em>Sunday Times</em> (UK) Bestseller<br /><br />Finalist for the 2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature<br />Longlisted for th...

Book recommendation! Over winter break, I've been reading Robert McFarlane's Is a River Alive? It is beautiful writing, and it has an undercurrent of serious philosophical argument. An awesome book.

wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Game of Clones: Why the Best Argument for De-Extinction Does Not Support Colossal Biosciences’ Dire Wolf Project Beth Shapiro, the lead researcher on Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolf project, has argued that the goal of de-extinction research should be to restore lost ecological interactions. But the recent cr...

Here's a short piece on de-extinction that just came out in Ethics, Policy, & Environment:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DKVRV...

Years ago I published a short review of an environmental ethics anthology.

Just jot a notice that my old book review has been cited in a paper in the journal *AI & Ethics.* So I looked up that paper. The authors clearly thought they were citing the book I was reviewing.

I'm guessing they used AI 😂

Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species - Daily Nous "The Return of the Dire Wolf" announced Time magazine---not quite correctly, it turns out---in its article on the creation of three creatures genetically engineered into existence by the firm Colossal...

A few of us philosophers with hot takes on the news about "dire wolves." (I didn't come up with the "Game of Clones" title, but I kind of like it.)

Am I the only one who still writes their own recommendation letters for students? Is everyone else using AI?

Congrats Dr. Perkins!!! It was an awesome defense! Hope you are celebrating this weekend!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta has apparently used 18 of my publications, without permission, to train its AI. This is theft of intellectual property.

Recently I Zoomed in to participate in one of Adrian Currie's seminars at Exeter and one of the seminar participants followed up with some wonderful interview questions on aesthetics and science #HPS #Philsci

exeternotion.press/2025/03/14/5...

More Hidden Gems from YouTube — Extinct In which Max compiles another set of YouTube videos for your enjoyment. Featuring Alfred Wegener, J. Tuzo Wilson, Immanuel Velikovsky, Adolf Seilacher, and more!

Need something to watch today that *isn't* the U.S. presidential inauguration? Try these hidden YouTube gems! Featuring Alfred Wegener, J. Tuzo Wilson, Fred Vine, Stephen Jay Gould, Adolf Seilacher, and the Venus-was-once-a-comet guy, Immanuel Velikovsky
www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2025...

The Black Gold Tapestry Sandra Sawatzky's contemporary work of art dramatizing the saga of oil through 220 feet of hand embroidery.

I've been on the lookout for interesting examples of challenging environmental art, and someone shared this one: "The Black Gold Tapestry," by Sandra Sawatzky. And it's got dinosaurs! www.theblackgoldtapestry.com

How the New World Became Old How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves

Another book recommendation for #HPS ers: I learned some new stuff from Caroline Winterer's fantastic book, "How the New World Became Old." Anyone who likes to geek out on 19th century geology will love this & It's got beautiful images and plates.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Book Recommendation: Lulu Miller's "Why Fish Don't Exist." It's got interesting history of science, some philosophy of biology, some memoir, and some murder mystery, all woven together. HPS folks might enjoy it!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-Fi...

From the Archive: Rugged Individualism in the Cretaceous — Extinct Once more to the archive: in which Kelle Dhein analyzes George Simpson’s sci-fi novella, The Dechronization of Sam Magruder

In case you missed it: here is Kelle Dhein's wonderful discussion of George Gaylord Simpson's posthumously published sci-fi/time travel/dinosaur novella, The Dechronization of Sam Magruder. Or: the umwelt of a paleontologist...
www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024...