Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah
A few others have mentioned this but I thought I’d put it up for those who only frequent my blog. On April 15th in the basement of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU is the “Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah” conference. This is part of the Mormon Theology Seminar and is co-hosted by Jim Faulconer. [...]
Incommensurability
Incommensurability as the key to metaphysics. Going not to Kuhn but back to Kant. Interesting idea.
DARPA
Darpa’s plans to regrow limbs. This is actually advancing much faster than I expected.
Brandon on Definitions
Brandon on definitions. Relevant for some discussions I’ve been in.
Hume
Brandon on Hume’s Religion
Philosophers on Twitter
List of philosophers on Twitter. I’m following way too many…
More Human Evolution
More contemporary human evolution with signals of recent positive selection. I’m a sucker for these sorts of stories and I like the analysis of false positives which is important to consider. Also some other analysis at Genetic Future.
NPR
NPR on the Big Love controversy.
San Francisco
Just a note. The reason there haven’t been any posts this week is because I’m in San Francisco. I’ll be back Monday and likely posting.
Ontic vs. Ontological
Ontic vs. Ontological. Really a discussion of Zizek’s misreading of Heidegger but it really does a great job explaining the ontic vs. the ontological. It’s from a few years ago but I accidentally came upon it again and had forgotten how much I liked it the first time. Charles Guignon has a nice little section [...]
Watchmen
Watchmen‘s Dr. Manhattan and the Mormon concept of deity. Kind of interesting take at the American Spectator I enjoyed. I think that despite everyone saying how philosophically interesting Dr. Manhattan is that it’s actually a fairly superficial engagement with the issue of time. (At least in the comic – I’ve not seen the movie yet)
Structure of Religiosity
Structure of religiosity and its neural substrates. (corrected link) Religious belief broken up into three factors then analyzed with fMRI.
Consciousness
Consciousness and anesthesia. An other great article by Zimmer.
Banning Open Access
Banning Open Access. It’s an interesting question about whether taxpayer funded research should be open.
Big Love
BCC analyzes the Big Love controversy about showing the temple ceremony. Also see the comments in the live blogging of the show. I didn’t watch but oddly what bothered me most in the accounts was the character being booted out of the temple after 15 minutes.
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