Aristotle on American Oligarchy

Would Aristotle view America as an Oligarchy?

Hawking: No Theory of Everything

Hawking says there is no theory of everything. Instead they have “model – dependent realism: the idea that a physical theory or world is a model (generally of a mathematical nature) and a set of rules that connect the elements of the model to observations.” Sounds more like instrumentalism to me.

Truth and Method

Faulconer and Bushman on Gadamer’s Truth and Method

Mormons and Education

So I should be doing a bunch of financials but instead I got interested in something Razib said about in his religious literacy post related to mine from yesterday. I’d speculated atheists, Jews and Mormons knew the most about religion because we had a higher than average education level. This had been frequently reported. (See [...]

Harman Summary

Harman on Infrastructure. Nice summary of several places he differs from Latour. I found it helpful. And yes, I still plan on getting back to discussing OOO. It’s just been a ridiculous September.

Buddhist Co-Dependent Origination

Buddhist relationalism and co-dependent origination. We discussed some similar issues on LDS-Herm this summer.

Potentially Habitable Close Planet Found?

A potentially habitable close planet found? I think habitable is pushing it since the planet doesn’t rotate enough leaving a extremely hot side and extremely cold side. Still to find that only 20 light years away is exciting.

Weirdness of Aristotle

Weirdness of Aristotle – Levi on substances.

Institutions, Derrida, and Forgiveness

Aaron at BCC considers Institutions, Derrida and Forgiveness. Great post.

Mormons and Atheists Most Knowledgeable About Religion

Interesting Pew survey out which has been receiving a lot of discussion. It’s Pew’s US Religious Knowledge Survey. Atheists, Mormons and Jews appear to be the most knowledgeable about religion. Of course it’s just from answering 32 religious questions (not all Christian) correctly. It’d be interesting to see the questions to try and figure out [...]

Evolution, Religion and Voting

Razib has an other great post at Gene Expression. This one is on voting and belief in Creationism. An important point frequently overlooked: I think mocking someone for this belief in a political context is somewhat strange: the survey literature is pretty robust that Americans are split down the middle on opinions about evolution. More [...]

Thoughts on the Deseret News, Immigration, and a Mormon Voice

Nate Oman with some thoughts on the Deseret News, immigration, and a Mormon voice. Very interesting analysis.

Gen X More Loyal to Religion

Interesting story at Science Daily I had missed. Apparently Gen-X are more loyal to their religion than prior generations. This isn’t to deny the increasing rise of the non-religious or the like. It’s just that the authors think that the trend may be leveling off. Although Gen-Xers are relatively likely to be raised with no [...]

Haecceity, Repeatability and Scotus

Haecceity, individuality, repeatability and Scotus. Related to things I’ve been studying relative to Derrida and Peirce for years. What individuates?

Leaving Your Religion Unhealthy

Interesting study discussed over at Science Daily on how “people who leave strict religious groups are more likely to say their health is worse than members who remain in the group.” It’s not clear to me what they mean by strict, but LDS is included in that group by the researchers.

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