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A nice aggregator of blogs dealing with OOO. It's only problem might be that a few blogs are pretty prolific and don't only deal with philosophy.
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Sherlock Holmes and mathematics. The recent movie, not the books.
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Do you really learn from lectures? (I never did – I have much preferred the professors just hand out their lectures)
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What can neuroscience teach us about evil? My favorite bit, Will Wilkinson says that the recent Slate article “confirms my impression that neuroscientists think the ability to fabricate colorful and misleading technicolor pictures of brains license them to philosophize with impunity.”
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Heidegger, realism, and OOO Very nice post. I'm still working through Harman. I favor the "hyper-realist" readings of Derrida and Heidegger regardless of whether they are the thinkers own. The too speculative nature of OOO makes me pretty uncomfortable though.
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Chris H. has a blog up on theory, culture and Mormonism. We're ideologically pretty separated (he's a liberal, I'm conservative, he's a neo-Kantian of sorts ethically whereas probably Levinas and Derrida come closest to my ethical views to the degree I have any) Still I always enjoy my discussions with him.
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Russell Fox responds to that hack job on Mormons in Harper's. Also a response at the Deseret News.
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Only 15% of scientists at major universities think there is a conflict between science and religion. I'm actually surprised it's that low. I guess the New Atheists have been less persuasive than it appeared. More surprising was that a majority saw both science and religion as "valid avenues of knowledge."
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More on faster than light neutrinos from the ever wonderful xkcd.
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Scientists can now safely sequence the genome of a fetus. Should they? I'd say yes but I can understand why some anti-abortion people might disagree. It's interesting since we chose not to get the Down Syndrome test on our children since of course we'd not abort had we discovered the disorder.
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Morals Innate?

Interesting podcast about whether morality is biological. (HT: Neurophilosophy) There have been plenty of books on this but it’s still an interesting listen and a podcast I’d never heard of before. (Added to my list for jogging and hiking)

Meltdown of the EPA

Meltdown of the EPA (HT: The Intersection). I was pretty critical of the EPA under Clinton but what’s happened under Bush on so many things is horrific. He’s replaced political debate with fixing the science. I think on many issues (including global warming) there’s a big valid political disagreement about what to do and why. [...]

Lehi, Opposition & Strife

I was listening to Dennis Potter’s SMPT presentation today. It was called “Opposing Lehi’s Theodicy” and basically dealt with what Dennis calls the Opposition Theodicy based upon 2 Nephi. Now Dennis is careful to note that he doesn’t think this theodicy is actually what Lehi is asserting. Rather he brings it up as it is [...]

LDS Liberation Theology

LDS Libertation Theology.

Global Warming Doubters

Nice discussion from January over at Dot Earth about scientists who are concerned about global warming. The article is about the American Geophysical Union statement on global warming. But in the comments they address the supposed experts on that supposed Senate report about climate skeptics that has been making the rounds. One of the more [...]

Cannabis Withdrawal

Cannabis and nicotine have similar withdrawal effects. Very interesting. I had always assumed marijuana was at best mildly addictive with only slight withdrawal effects.

Does Studying Economics Make You Selfish?

At the Splintered Mind: Does studying economics make you selfish?

Qualia, Quale and Peirce

Qualia pop up a lot in discussion of philosophy of mind. If you’re not familiar with the term the SEP on qualia is a great place to start. What’s weird is that several papers I’ve read the past few weeks have attributed the origin of the term or at least idea to C. S. Peirce. [...]

68th Philosopher’s Carnival

68th Philosopher’s Carnival. Openness and it’s relationship to philosophy.

Trinities

Trinities. Interesting blog about various theories on the doctrine of the Trinity. I’ve been interested in the topic for some reason the past few months. (HT: Maverick Philosopher)

Voting for the Wrong Reasons

I’ll confess that I’m pretty cynical about voters. This Volokh post is one big reason. Folks tend to vote based upon things Presidents have little or no control on. And are ignorant about the things they do have an effect on.

Effects of Ending Drugs

Marginal Revolution has an interesting discussion on what would happen if drugs were legalized. I tend to agree that a lot of the problem are drug-users and not just the crime around selling. But the effects of the government war on drugs are horrendous. I wish we could end that.

SMPT Podcasts

The SMPT Podcasts should be up soon. I’m just waiting for the list of SMPT members since most of the podcasts will be only for members. We will put up one or two for everyone. But by and large you have to be a member.

Visual Memory, Depression and Plasticity

Visual memory, depression and pasticity. Interesting post summarizing a bit about how visual memory works.

Dark Matter Detection

Nice post at Cosmic Variance about that detection of dark matter in a laboratory.

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