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The Hole Argument at the SEP. Arguably one of the most important more philosophical arguments made in physics. At least as important as Bell's Inequalities yet surprisingly far less known.
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Philosophical interpretations of E = mc^2 at the SEP. I don't think most people realize it's a deeper question than it appears.
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Interesting review of Connor Boyack's Latter-day Liberty, an attempt to argue for libertarianism from a Mormon perspective. (Part 2 is here)
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Levi has a nice post on thinking the absolute. "...religion is symptomatic of the speculative project of metaphysics. Religion is what comes forth to supplement metaphysics when metaphysics sets existence to the side."
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A nice aggregator of blogs dealing with OOO. It's only problem might be that a few blogs are pretty prolific and don't only deal with philosophy.
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Sherlock Holmes and mathematics. The recent movie, not the books.
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Do you really learn from lectures? (I never did – I have much preferred the professors just hand out their lectures)
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What can neuroscience teach us about evil? My favorite bit, Will Wilkinson says that the recent Slate article “confirms my impression that neuroscientists think the ability to fabricate colorful and misleading technicolor pictures of brains license them to philosophize with impunity.”
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Heidegger, realism, and OOO Very nice post. I'm still working through Harman. I favor the "hyper-realist" readings of Derrida and Heidegger regardless of whether they are the thinkers own. The too speculative nature of OOO makes me pretty uncomfortable though.
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Chris H. has a blog up on theory, culture and Mormonism. We're ideologically pretty separated (he's a liberal, I'm conservative, he's a neo-Kantian of sorts ethically whereas probably Levinas and Derrida come closest to my ethical views to the degree I have any) Still I always enjoy my discussions with him.
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Options & Alternative Possibilities

Philosophical Pontifications has up a post on whether options are the same as alternative possibilities. I think we have to distinguish the ontological from the physical issues. However I think our common linguistic concepts are designed to pick out the physical issues but not the ontological ones. Put an other way I think our instincts [...]

Pirated Books

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Papers for the iPhone

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Which Aggregator?

I got an email last week asking what aggregator I use for reading blogs. (You probably noticed that with the new blog I don’t have a list of blogs on the sidebar – that’s why) I use NetNewsWire on the Mac and iPhone. It’s nice as it has a browser built in for quick views [...]

Charles Darwin: Conservative

Charles Darwin: Conservative “It is fascinating that conservatives who advocate for a spontaneous order–the free market–in political economy and decry social engineering as a threat to progress and civilization should resent Darwin’s overwhelming case for the idea that order can design itself.”

Rational Akrasia

Rational akrasia. Aka whether our deliberative judgments about what’s rational for us have significance in determining what is actually rational for us.

Philosophy all in our heads?

Is philosophy all in our heads?

Younger Accept Evolution

Young are more likely to accept evolution. Even among Christians. It’d be interesting to know this for Mormons, although as I’ve argued poll questions for Mormons are often misleading.

Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence

Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and physicists

Early cancer detection: more complicated than you think

Aquinas vs. Intelligent Design

Aquinas vs. Intelligent Design (HT: Evolving Thoughts)

Unnoticed smells affects our judgments of others.

Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah. An online seminar. Quite interesting.

Rising Consensus on Climate Change

Rising consensus emerging on climate change among economists. These are folks that can’t even agree on the stimulus!

Mormon Problem for Republicans

The Mormon problem for Republicans at New Majority. “Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman.”

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