William F. Harms, Ph.D.

• Philosophy Instructor and
  "Independent Scholar"
• 3621 3th Ave West
• Seattle, WA 98199
• Home: 206-352-7851
• billharms@billharms.com

Check out my new book
from Cambridge Press,
Information and Meaning in
Evolutionary Processes.

It's about how epistemology can be transformed into a rigorous scientific discipline, using a blend of population modeling and   teleosemantics. 

• Sccc Philosophy 120
• Sccc Philosophy of Science Readings
• Academics (CV, Publications, Syllabi)
• Personal Page
• The E.A.M.E. Modeling Page Lots of my work on interactive Java simulators for Evolutionary Game Theory.

Recent Web-Stuff

• My Evolutionary Epistemology Entry at the Online Stanford Encylcopedia of Philosophy. (With Mike Bradie.)
• The Evolution of Cooperation on Hostility Gradients (html with graphics)
• A Three Level Eco-Trophic
  Predator/Prey Simulation

Diatribes

• Understanding Is and Ought (An application of Millikan's teleosemantics. The word is not the basic unit of meaning.) 8/1/2000

Some Links:

• UBC Centre for Applied Ethics Home Page where I was previously employed.
• BGSU Philosophy Department where I was previously employed.
• University of California,Irvine. UCI Department of Philosophy my alma mater.
• The American Philosophical Association
• International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology

How to make a dog hip brace out of a human knee brace.