The Linguistic Turn and Psychology

The place of the Linguistic Turn given the rise of progress in psychology and empirical investigation of “intuitions.” A very interesting post. Is the linguistic turn doomed? Or is psychology merely inevitably encroaching on philosophy’s turf and doing a better job? Fortunately there are more empirical approaches to philosophy and let’s [...]

Frankfurt, Agency and Phenomenology

Frankfurt, Agency and Phenomenology

Responsibility, Ignorance and our Duty

Sorry to keep harping on the free will debate. I know some aren’t interested. I should have some other posts coming as well as the much promised post on revisionist accounts of responsibility. I sort of wanted to get a lot of this out of my system so I could think about [...]

Digg for Philosophy?

A version of Digg for philosophy blogs. Kind of interesting. I’ve seen these sorts of things for blogs before and they rarely work out. I hope this one does. Of course having a tag at philosophy oriented blogs that submits a post is a necessity. (HT: Tanasije)

Language Evolution

There’s a great post up at Science Blogs on Language Evolution. Note that linguistic or symbolic evolution (yeah the whole meme thing) is unlike regular biological evolution. That’s because there is intentionality to it. I’ve long found linguistic evolution interesting - ever since I went though the math in Royal Skousen’s Analogical [...]

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Magic

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Magic

Science - Humanities Divide

Janet on the Science - Humanities divide. Also Razib on the same. I do think most scientists know the humanities fairly well. One wishes the reverse was true.

Religion Heritable

Religious denomination is heritable. I was somewhat surprised by the correlation although in hindsight it isn’t that surprising.

Pre-Columbian Chickens

This is potentially interesting to LDS and the BoM. Pre-columbian chickens are from Europe. I doubt much will come of it. But I figured I’d pass it along.

Existential vs. Language

Existential versus linguistic meaning

Heidegger’s Language

Reading Heidegger’s Language. Great post. Especially the big about connotation and denotation. (I’d probably agree with the Dreyfus criticism as well)

Fuel Cell

A new fuel cell design to replace rechargeable batteries in cars. Purportedly stores two times the energy compared with petroleum.

Givenness and Zombies

The Myth of the Given and Zombies. One of those connections that you’d never make on your own but which seems obvious in hindsight.

FAIR Conference

FAIR (an LDS apologetic group) is having their annual conference starting August 7th. Pre-ordering gives you a free meal and ends soon. There is limited seating and free WiFi available.

Truth vs. Truth

I was listening to Dreyfus’ existentialism lectures on my drive home. He was discussing the two traditions that make up the western tradition. The first was Greek and basically was what we’d term absolutism and the traditional categories of philosophical thought (epistemology, ethics, ontology). In that tradition truth is correspondence between thought [...]

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