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WP on whether Glenn Beck's rise is good for Mormonism. It's a mixed bag. It seems to reduce the animosity by some Evangelicals towards us but inflames more liberals towards us. He's definitely not representative of us, from what I can see. But then who is?
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Being conscious of one's own motive is not a necessary condition for moral responsibility. Or so says people's intuitions.
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Levi reads Glenn Beck in light of the Stoics. I know next to nothing about Beck's actual beliefs beyond his being highly influenced by Skousen's conspiracy theories from the 50's (and perhaps Skousen's theology?). BTW - I mean to reply to Levi's post on Peirce and OOP but just have been swamped.
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New Scientist has an article on biosemiotics. It's pretty interesting and avoids a lot of the hyperbole NS sometimes falls prey to. I really think Peircean styled semiotics will be the wave of the 21st century. In many ways OOP is just retracing his steps (albeit with slightly different metaphysics in some cases).
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Human nature is depressing. Doing good viewed as bad. This seems like a pretty obvious and common fact about human behavior to me. It's not the only aspect to human nature though but heaven knows we have some bad instincts.
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Virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I mentioned a prior study last year.
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NYT on the alternatives to the normal journal & peer review route. Weird they didn't mention arxiv which is the physics paper repository site. That was started at Los Alamos way back in 1991. It switched names and location to Cornell in 1999. The humanities are johnny come latelies to all this.
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Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein and the misprint demons at BCC. Some of the other stories about Gödel in the comments are nearly as good.
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What are Signs and Objects for Peirce? Also see Objects in the Peirce Dictionary.
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OOP and Quantum Theory
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5 Things Meme

I’m a sucker for these. 5 Things of 5. If you have a blog and are reading this you have to put up your own. (I got this one from The Excluded Middle which amazingly I must not have read since around Christmas since their meme post was from December) Anyway, here it is…

FARMS and ID

FARMS Reviews “The Case for Divine Design”LDS Science Review offers its own review and commentary. Also check out a recent post on ID at The Mormon Organon.

Phil Papers

Phil Papers. “PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies.” Over 188 thousand entries thus far. Looks good.

Maxwell Institute Journals

New Maxwell Institute Journals (The organization formerly known as FARMS)

Structuralism

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Giant Hologram

We’re all living in a giant hologram? New Scientist – sensationalist? No… Couldn’t be. On the other hand some actual empirical data that makes a difference in theoretical physics would be welcome.

Morris vs. Peirce

Most people who learn about Peirce end up learning about him indirectly. Even a lot of people who study semiotics or related disciplines never really get to read Peirce beyond perhaps a few major papers (typically from his pre-1890 period). The problem is that Peirce, as presented, tends to come more from Charles Morris whose [...]

Peirce, Heidegger and Ready at Hand

Graham Harman has up a post about his theory of tool-use in Heidegger. (HT: Enowning) It’s an interesting post about ready-at-handedness in Heidegger. Heidegger has a famous passage where he analyzes hammers to make a larger point. He suggests that while hammering we don’t notice the hammer. When it is hidden like this it is [...]

Dust Argument

The dust argument of mind. Pretty interesting although I don’t buy the initial premise of functionalism.

Mind and Matter: the three non-reductionist alternatives

The question of the emergence of mind popped up again over at New Cool Thang. I wanted to put up a discussion of the issue but less tied to that particular discussion. Although I do want to use it to discuss some of Blake Ostler’s views and arguments. I should note that I don’t really [...]

Death of the Humanities?

Death of the liberal arts? The Stanley Fish editorial everyone is talking about. I am one of those who think everyone should take some studies in the humanities but major in something else. So I’m probably not the target audience for fear and loathing over this.

Personality and Neurotransmitters

Personality and neurotransmitters. Don’t push it too far but it is an interesting post.

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