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Egyptian mythology and philosophy. Kind of interesting.
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Philosophy Talk, Nihilism and Meaning, guest: Hubert Dreyfus. (HT: Enowning)
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What drives media bias? After doing the analysis it appears ownership has little to do with it but the audience of buyers has everything to do with it.
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Marginal Revolution on Autism. I didn't realize that in 90% of the cases where one twin was autistic the other was. That's a strong argument for it being primarily genetic.
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Razib against Evo-Psych again. "...much of the evo-psych which penetrates the broader public mindspace is driven by demand-side forces."
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Is global warming really settled science? A really good point - in a certain sense no scientific theory is ever settled.
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"Rehabilitating Information". Critiquing the meaning of information in information theory from a Peircean perspective. Part of a discussion going on over at Peirce-L.
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Recordings of a recent Chicago conference on Nietzsche Leiter mentioned. Better than music for when you walk the dog.
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Gary on Heidegger's notion of perception. I'm not sure I'd want to call it direct realism due to that terms connection to Reid's epistemology. He points out that for Kant perception is representation. For Heidegger "is the process of intentionally directing-oneself-towards the noumenal realm without any sort of representational mediation. We can say that for Heidegger, perception is the experience of responding to how the thing-in-itself shows itself to us." It's a great post similar in some ways to the Peircean critique I made earlier today.
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The Clayton/Dennett debate over religion. I've not watched the video yet. Clayton's post-debate thoughts are here. The key phrase though: "For religious believers like me . . . religious belief is never reducible to the moral convictions it supports or the behaviors it produces. It functions as a entire world- and life-view, permeating all that I do, affecting how I see, interpret, and evaluate everything I encounter."
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