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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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Russell Fox responds to that hack job on Mormons in Harper's. Also a response at the Deseret News.
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Only 15% of scientists at major universities think there is a conflict between science and religion. I'm actually surprised it's that low. I guess the New Atheists have been less persuasive than it appeared. More surprising was that a majority saw both science and religion as "valid avenues of knowledge."
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Question of Being

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The Health Care Finale

Even though I disagree with him politically, I always appreciate Russell Fox’s comments on matters. Here’s his thoughts on the health care passage. (I should note that Russell is a fellow Mormon and its interesting to see how our religion plays out differently in our political views) My own view is that both sides have [...]

On Ethics

Paul Ennis has up a good post on Heidegger and the Social. It’s really a kind of reflection on intellectual development. It got me thinking though about my own engagement with Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida and Ethics. Now regular readers know I have a somewhat disparaging view of philosophical ethics. Part of that is more [...]

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SMPT Reminder

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