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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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University Website

Almost made this a full post. xkcd on University websites. So true.

Trumpery, Heidegger and Derrida

Graham Harman has had up a few posts on what he calls trumpery. The latest includes some bits about Heidegger and Derrida. First let me quote the Derridean bit. Orthodox Derridean: “…as in the shallow and naive charge that Derrida ‘reduces the world to a text.’” Comment: But Derrida does reduce the world to a [...]

What is Metaphor?

What is a metaphor? Yeah, old post. But I just noticed it and it really is a great simple discussion of metaphor.

Beck, Mormonism and Evangelicalism

I don’t listen to Glen Beck. Talk radio isn’t my thing. (Too much inflammatory hyperbole and strawmen) However an Evangelical blog, Heart Issues, had up an interesting post suggesting Beck speaks more like an Evangelical than a Mormon. They link to what I’d consider an anti-Mormon site which had what seemed an odd article. The [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology II

Quick quote from that thesis, “The Status of Epistemology in the Thought of Martin Heidegger,” I mentioned earlier today. Here Bartels is speaking of knowing as bringing out of concealment – an important notion in Heidegger. The idea is that knowledge isn’t merely propositional knowledge or awareness but a kind of know-how for revealing something. [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology

One thing I’ve long wondered about is how to think about epistemology. On the one hand some of the approaches to epistemology common in the analytic tradition seem a bit off to me. I’ve not gone through the details of how this affects the practical reasoning, but clearly some of the critiques that Heidegger leveled [...]

Nature & Future of Philosophy of Science

The nature and future of the philosophy of science. A nice overview – especially if you have scientist friends who aren’t fond of philosophy. The post made me want to read Samir Okasha’s Evolution and the Levels of Selection which is about the math of natural selection.

Alternative to the Big Bang

Alternative to the big bang. Time and space shift between each other during switches between contraction and expansion. Kind of elegant in a way. Unlike most of these speculative ideas this one makes predictions.

Reduction in Science

Reduction in science. Or the ways it could be done versus the way scientists tend to do it.

Heidegger on Present-at-Hand Relations

I put up some comments on the sidebar earlier today on present-at-hand relations in Heidegger prompted by Enowning’s repost of an interview with Graham Harman. I wanted to put up a relevant quote. (Note I’ve not yet read Harman’s Tool-Being although I enjoyed his Prince of Networks even though I disagree in some key areas) [...]

Three Types of Present-at-Hand

Tree types of Present-at-Hand (Vorhandenheit) Enowning’s post on Harman’s view got me thinking about all this. Gary Williams posted on it recently too. I ought chime in with my own views, although I’m not sure my views are Heidegger’s any more than Harman’s are.

Grandfather Paradox

Solving the grandfather paradox with quantum mechanics. It uses postselection which admittedly is controversial although I think in keeping with a four dimensional view of time. The paper is here.

LDS Church, Indians and Pioneer Day

LDS Church emphasizes the dispossessing of the Indians on Pioneer Day. A nice correction to some of the way some Utahns view Pioneer Day. I think many Mormons have an overly idealized view of LDS-Indian relations in the 19th century. Also see this post. I didn’t know about some of the small town reenactments. Many [...]

Remembering George W

Remembering George W. but from more of a conservative critique. I’d add in being unable to communicate much of anything to anyone. But I agree with the commentators. It’s in the past. What’s worse is that the current brand of “leaders” don’t seem much better.

Evolution of Creationism

Evolution of Creationism at LDS Science.

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