Mormon History & Critical Theory

Mormon history and critical theory. An interesting discussion of Nietzsche, Derrida and Foucalt as well.

Rapid Evolution of Lizard

Interesting story about rapid revolution of a lizard species that was released on a small island.

Clean Water and Electricity for $2000?

Maker of Segway has Machines that generate clean water or electricity for $2000. The Segway didn’t live up to the hype. Maybe this will? More here. It would be a great boon to places in the 3rd world if it works well.

Free Will & Cheating

Students who think they don’t have free will are more likely to cheat. (HT: Wide Scope) It’s discussed at The Ends of Thought and Praeter Necessitatum as well.

Libertarian Parables

Richard on Libertarian parables. The political kind. Not the free will kind.

Choosing Before Awareness of Choosing

Chris over at Mixing Memory has up a great post about fMRI images and predicting behavior. It’s well worth reading if you’re familiar with the old Libet study where the brain decides a choice before we’re aware of making the choice. That study was often quoted but ended up being problematic as it didn’t make [...]

Analytics, Continentals and History of Philosophy

Brandon on Analytic philosophers, Continental philosophers, and the history of philosophy. Interestingly this has been a topic at HOPOS-L the last week as well. I might post some comments later.

Is There Mental Repression?

Chris thinks there no such thing as repression as found in psychoanalysis.

Peirce and Hegel

Great paper by Ramon Vernis on Peirce and Hegel. “Peircean Categories: An Old Name for a New Way of Thinking”. Relevant to the recent slew of zombie discussions as well (IMO). (Speaking of which check out Richard’s latest roundup of zombie discussions)

Time and Chance

Is there a difference between something being random at time T such that E is a random event at T and the case where there is a randomness determining E at T such that E is random but not generated at time T? Consider for instance Las Vegas. Slot machines and presumably many other games [...]

T&S on the Problem with Finitist Theodicies

Nate Oman on the two problems with Mormon finitist theodicies.

Danger of Chocolate

Chocolate is considered dangerous for security (HT: Volokh Conspiracy)

Military Initiative to Grow Body Parts

Military initiative to regrow body parts. I’m not sure only 1/4 of a billion is enough though.

Age, Free Will and Mary

One thing that I think has bothered most of us about the FLDS situation is the age. In my other post I noted the distinction between epistemic justification and moral responsibility on the one hand and the ultimate issue of whether something is good. So for instance, I personally would say that it is inherently [...]

Religiosity, Gender, and Fidelity

Two great posts by Razib. The first is on Church attendance but not faith predicts marital fidelity. The next was on gender differences and theological conservatism.

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