Time and Harman

As I mentioned I’ve not had time to respond to Levi’s post on OOP and pragmatism beyond a few brief comments. I hope to finish that up tonight. I’ve just been really busy again. I did want to respond to Graham’s latest post though. He wrote: On the other hand there are people who claim [...]

Consciousness and Responsibility

Being conscious of one’s own motive is not a necessary condition for moral responsibility. Or so says people’s intuitions.

Glenn Beck and the Stoics

Levi reads Glenn Beck in light of the Stoics. I know next to nothing about Beck’s actual beliefs beyond his being highly influenced by Skousen’s conspiracy theories from the 50′s (and perhaps Skousen’s theology?). BTW – I mean to reply to Levi’s post on Peirce and OOP but just have been swamped.

OOP

So I finished a second read of Graham Harman’s Prince of Networks. It cleared up a few issues in my head. That said I think my initial thoughts and criticisms were dead on. That is I don’t think there is a heavy engagement with the issue of time. It’s just taken as a clear and [...]

Biosemiotics

New Scientist has an article on biosemiotics. It’s pretty interesting and avoids a lot of the hyperbole NS sometimes falls prey to. I really think Peircean styled semiotics will be the wave of the 21st century. In many ways OOP is just retracing his steps (albeit with slightly different metaphysics in some cases).

Human Nature is Depressing

Human nature is depressing. Doing good viewed as bad. This seems like a pretty obvious and common fact about human behavior to me. It’s not the only aspect to human nature though but heaven knows we have some bad instincts.

Virus for Chronic Fatigue Syndome

Virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I mentioned a prior study last year.

Alternatives to Peer Review

NYT on the alternatives to the normal journal & peer review route. Weird they didn’t mention arxiv which is the physics paper repository site. That was started at Los Alamos way back in 1991. It switched names and location to Cornell in 1999. The humanities are johnny come latelies to all this.

How I Deal With Phone Spam

How I deal with Phone Spam. Give the phone to one of my kids and let them have an interesting conversation. I used to also answer polls by giving ridiculous answers as a kind of civil disobedience. I kind of think polls are pretty damaging to society since they lead to superficial views of problems [...]

Annoyances

OK, something not tied to technical philosophy. This is my grumpy old man rant. (Even though I’m far from an old man yet, despite a few grey hairs are starting to make their appearance near my ears) 1. Blogger Comments: The software, not the hobby. Google’s blogger won’t allow blockquote tags so you can’t indent [...]

Kurt Gödel and the Misprint Demons

Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein and the misprint demons at BCC. Some of the other stories about Gödel in the comments are nearly as good.

Signs and Objects

What are Signs and Objects for Peirce? Also see Objects in the Peirce Dictionary.

Objects as a Point of View

OK, I know I’ve been posting a lot of responses to various of Levi’s posts. However they’ve been quite helpful for drawing out various things I’ve been thinking about the past few years. This will probably be among the last for a little bit as I want to return to a few more religious topics. [...]

OOO and QM

OOP and Quantum Theory

Being Ethical

There was a pretty interesting Bloggingheads TV this week featuring Joshua Knobe and one of my favorite bloggers Eric Schwitzgebel. Eric of course runs The Splintered Mind. The dialog between the two largely goes over what Eric has been posting on the past few years regarding whether reasoning about ethics makes one more ethical. Most [...]

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