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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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Tension Between Simple and Complex Laws

The tension between simple and complex laws. My view is the that it’s ultimately unjust to have laws people can’t understand. If you need a dedicated law department to know how to act then effectively you punish the average person and provide huge costs on small business. That said sometimes complexity arises because of the [...]

Reflections on the Joseph Smith Papers

Lots of commentary to the new JS Papers. I’ll not link to them all except to Ardis’ nice discussion.

Defining Mormon Materialism

Defining Mormon materialism in the 1840′s at the Juvenile Instructor. The discussion in the comments was quite good. I’m looking forward to the mentioned papers.

Adam, Eve and Faust

Adam, Eve and Faust. A pretty interesting discussion of Genesis 2-3 in light of Goethe’s Faust by Terryl Givens. I don’t agree with his reading but the discussion that followed is great.

Update on the Blog

OK, I’m slowly getting back into blogging here again. I thought I’d mention a few minor changes. First, the sideblog entries will now show up with the rss feed. Let me know if you don’t like that. Basically if a post is just a few sentences it goes in the sideblog. I’ll be updating the [...]

Missing Dads and Bad Behavior: Environment or Genes?

An other fascinating post from Razib. This one on the question about whether bad behavior from homes without dads is primarily due to environment (as both liberals and conservatives tend to suggest) or genes. I’d never have even thought to raise the question. It’s quite fascinating even though it doesn’t fully resolve the issue. (There [...]

Living in Sin Belt

One of my favorite blogs is Gene Expression. Even in these days where I’ve been too busy to read blogs regularly I still manage to check out Razib’s. Today he had an interesting post on nuclear families. I hope he won’t mind if I quote his graphs. They are quite interesting. The first is the [...]

Orson Scott Card’s Foretelling of Blogs in the 80′s

OK, first read this xkcd comic:

How Ugly…

How ugly is the Standard Model?

Taking the Right Seriously

Taking the right seriously. Fantastic article on conservatives in academia. I think the worst thing about the past few years is how ignorant of their intellectual heritage most conservatives are not to mention the collapse into populism and paranoia.

Ethics

OK, the first post back from “blogging vacation.” (Actually I’ve been doing lots of tech blogging, but not the heavier stuff here) Now I don’t really study Ethics too much for reasons I’ve outlined before. It seems to me though that one can characterize the basic ontology within ethical study as the following. (1) those [...]

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I’ll be coming off my “vacation” from philosophy blogging next week.

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