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On Continental use of Realism. I have some comments on this but am on my way to San Francisco for a conference.
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The different paradigms for reading Heidegger. Gives the main schools of thought as well as a new model that challenges William Richardson a little. (I'm partial to Richardson's view that the change is primarily a change in focus - although clearly there are some differences in his thought) This is a fantastic paper to get at the main definitions of Heidegger and cut through a lot of the cruft.
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How free is God's will? I think there is an essential tension between early Jewish views in which God is a limited but purposeful quasi-anthropic actor and the Hellenistic views where God is the ontological ground of existence. You'll always run into problems reconciling the two.
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Working notes on Derrida's On Touching. I've not read this work and it sounds like I really should. Of course timewise...
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Empirically studying Heidegger's notion of ready-at-hand. They study the example I always give when explaining Heidegger: a mouse that doesn't track correctly. (HT: Enowning)
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Philosophy is Inquiry "We do not study Kant and Nietzsche and Heidegger to refute them or to agree with them, or to satisfy a need to have something to believe in, or a need to belong to a movement, or a craving for action-guiding beliefs. Philosophy is inquiry: an attempt at arriving at the sober impersonal truth to the extent that this is possible for such limited beings as we are." He sounds like a Peircean to me. (A bit of truth and a bit of a joke if you read his post)
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Brandon on Newton's argument against the Trinity. While I always knew of Newton's views I've never really paid attention to his reasoning before. This particular argument is rather relevant for Mormons. (IMO)
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Why trust Kant on ethics? I also like his bit about "gobbledy-gook." I know I'm in the distinct minority but I feel about Kant the way a lot of people feel about Derrida. (Although Brandon makes a good defense in the comments) That said I still think Kant raises some important questions and critiques of Hume.
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Jeff has up a new blog up, Stop that Crow. He's starting off discussing determinism in its various guises. We'll see if he addresses other topics. Jeff's been a frequent commenter here.
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FPR on Beck & Social Justice. His Rawlian reading of Mormonism is worth checking out as well.
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