Adrian Currie

Philosopher of Science, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Adrian Currie is a philosopher of science and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk in Cambridge, UK. He is a founder of Extinct, the philosophy of palaeontology blog, and author of Rock, Bone and Ruin, forthcoming with MIT Press.

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Written by Adrian Currie

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History of science

Does science need mavericks?

Staid and conformist, science risks losing its creative spark. Does it need more mavericks, or are they part of the problem?

Adrian Currie

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History of science

The missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found

Adrian Currie & Derek Turner