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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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Interesting quote from NDPR’s review of Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology That the questions asked by metaphysicians should simply be left to physicists is not a criticism that those not generally skeptical of philosophical inquiry should take seriously. As philosophers, we tend to value the methodology of our own discipline and (whether [...]

On Dialectic

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Interesting Science as Religion Take

Interesting take on the science and religion debate. She also comments on some of the anti-religious tendency at Science Blogs which I have to admit get annoying at times. The big about science having similarities to religion are interesting. And of course graduate robes, albeit rarely worn in the US, come out of the religious [...]

Criticizing Graham Harman

I’m only starting to get into Harman’s philosophy, but I found this post on some criticisms interesting. “Harman’s importation of Husserlian Idealist objects exotically fused to a Heideggerian matrix . . . in an utterly non-productive way, leaving one to feel that one is just making categories up in some kind of meta-love . . [...]

Latour vs. Derrida

Latour vs. Derrida conceived of in terms of the individual. “Latour is saying that nothing is singular (irreducible) because it always needs others. Derrida would say everything is singular (irreducible) because it (a thing) needs others.” Of course, as Mike says, things are much more complex. For Derrida the singular isn’t an atomistic singular, for [...]

More on the Atheist Debate

Surprisingly that quick post from the other day on Postmodern Conservative and the New Atheists got a bit of traction. Razib put up some comments at Secular Right. There were then two more posts (here and here) at Postmodern Conservative. I think my own position was misunderstood a little. I’m not making complaints about people [...]

Debating the Mormon Theology of Spirits

Over at NCT Geoff has up a pretty good discussion of the theology of spirits in Joseph Smith’s thought. I think the comments went pretty well, although as is common there the volume gets a bit high. (Comment 77 and counting at the moment) The basic debate is over the meaning of spirits in Joseph’s [...]

Levi-Strauss Dies

Levi-Strauss dies. I’m ashamed to say I was shocked he was still alive.

Secret Gospel of Mark

Secret Gospel of Mark redeemed? Has Morton Smith’s reputation been salvaged? BAR apparently has an issue on it and Kevin Barney summarizes a lot of the debate.

Reacting to Derrida

Reacting to Derrida. I have pretty similar responses. I also think coming to grips with the early Derrida by way of a close reading of Husserl is essential. The way literature departments abuse him is…problematic. It’s also important to read him as doing phenomenology of a sort. A lot of analytic contempt for Derrida, Heidegger [...]

Moral Intuitions and the Metaphysical Epoch

Moral intuitions and the epoch one finds oneself in. AKA: Heideggarians tend to think intuitions are historically bound. That’s probably one reason I’m so skeptical of the appeal to moral intuitions.

Inequality and the Importance of Cognition

I think one huge problem in America is the rise of importance of cognitive skills. It simply means those without them are going to face downward pressure. However Marginal Revolution notes the feedback mechanism in all this. I suspect it’ll only get worse and income redistribution wouldn’t help much even if attempted. (Although look for [...]

Political Philosopher Teaching Rand

A political philosopher on teaching Ayn Rand. I’d love something like that at BYU considering how many Freshman are into her. (How I can never quite make heads nor tails of given how her views on selfishness and sex are so at odds with Mormonism)

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