Review of the D700

Review of the new Nikon D700. If, like me, you’ve been getting cheaper digital cameras it looks like it may be time to upgrade to something more powerful.

Gender and Math

Gender and Math ability. No difference on average but men have more dullards and more geniuses.

Philosopher’s Carnival

Latest Philosopher’s Carnival. I especially liked the cartoon critique of Everett’s MWI of QM as implying a horrific kind of immortality. A critique of transhumanism was interesting also.

Cuil: Google Competetor

Finally a real competitor to Google? Cuil.com. I tried it out and it’s relevancy algorithms just aren’t as good.

Heidegger & Derrida

Richardson on Heidegger & Derrida. Nice summary.

Brandon on Perspicuity of Scripture

Brandon on Perspicuity of Scripture. (Well actually Turretin but I found it quite interesting)

Northern Lights

Scientists find trigger for norther lights

Quickly - Peircean Generals

I’d written a big post on Peirce’s view of Generals and Universals. After finishing it I decided it just was way too technical and got into too much of Peirce’s metaphysics. So instead of expounding on Peirce’s theories let me offer a brief outline of a cosmology that I think works. I [...]

Detecting Chance

I wanted to make clear why I can’t accept Blake’s view that Libertarian Free Will (LFW) is detectable against chance in the universe. I don’t think I’ve really communicated well what I see to be the problem.

Lime to Cure Global Warming?

A way to use lime in the ocean to counteract global warming. There have been many of these hairbrained schemes. It seems one big problem is alway what other effects they’d produce.

Am I a Physicalist?

Blake accused me of being a physicalist in the comments from yesterday. I just wanted to clarify why I feel this is quite wrong and explain my own position.

My Ethics Philosophy

My view of ethics came up in the other thread. I wanted to clarify my position since so many appear to have drawn erroneous ideas about it. I’ll be the first to admit that I am fairly skeptical of most ethical writings in philosophy that I’ve read. For a wide variety of [...]

Debunking that APS anti-Global Warming News

Debunking that APS anti-global warming news. I got a ton of people sending me emails about how this showed there wasn’t consensus.

Time Perception Distortion

Time perception distortions

Economic Theory Wrong?

Interesting article up at New Scientist. (It’s behind a pay wall so I’ll summarize it) It’s about why economic theory is out of whack. The paper they are discussing is available at arXiv though. It’s “Stock Price Jumps: News and Volume Play a Minor Role”. (OK, not a very catchy [...]

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