Representation and Causation
Bill Vallicella has an interesting post on representation and causation. Vallicella has been doing an interesting series on intentionality and physicalism. I think ultimately the problem is that many physicalists are attempting to explain intentionality in terms of a two-place logic rather than a three-place. That is to reduce intentionality to causation. Causation can be [...]
Low Hanging Fruit
Low hanging fruit and the American stagnation…
World Inequality
We talk a lot about inequality however it seems to me that the way Americans talk about it is fairly distorted due to it being focused on inequities within America. Not that such inequality doesn’t matter. It does. But this graph I saw at Marginal Revolution ought give one pause.
Huntsman Stepping Down
White House says Huntsman leaving as ambassador to China. Looks like he’s running for President. I’m not sure he has a chance but then the field is ridiculously weak right now. Huntsman’s main weakness is his Mormonism, being governor of a relatively small state and some question his social conservative street cred. On the other [...]
Objects: Less than the Sum
Objects as less than the sum of their parts. But more than the sum of their relations. Nice clarification on OOO. Not sure I agree, at least in the phenomenological realm. There the object as given is always a more and less. (This is the Derrida in me coming out) I’m still thinking through the [...]
Recalling Memories Locks Them
Recalling memories can lock them in place. “When a memory is recalled, it appears to be have a period in which it’s unstable and can potentially be eliminated. If the memory is left alone or reinforced, storing it again will help consolidate it. If, however, something (such as a researcher) interferes with the re-storing of [...]
Money and Religion
There’s an interesting post at BCC on views of money and God. The author suggests that our wealth affects how we view God. Undoubtedly that’s true on one level. Being needy or rich profoundly affects how we view religion. I’m not so much interested in the judgement game with people deciding who really cares about [...]
Why Rich Parents Don’t Matter
Why rich parents don’t matter but poor ones do. Razib makes a rather interesting observation. “When people fret about the relative lack of class mobility into Ivy League universities compared to the 1960s, they might consider if the mobility of that era was simply a function of the relatively recent removal of previous discriminatory barriers. [...]
Slowly Getting Back to Philosophy
I think it safe to say I’ve not had a lot of time for philosophy the last year. Other than a delving into the OOO fracas this summer (and perhaps a couple of posts where I wished I’d read and studied a bit more before writing) I’ve not really done much profound reading. I have [...]
Varieties of Consequentialism
Varieties of Consequentialism. I’m vaguely consequentialist in response to what I consider the Ethical imperative. (Which isn’t the same thing as thinking it a correct meta-ethics)
Attacks on Philosophy by Scientists
Attacks on philosophy by scientists
Joe Ransdell on Descartes’ Dualism
I don’t think I mentioned it here yet but Joe Ransdell died recently. He was one of the great Peirce scholars and did quite a bit to help Peircean scholarship progress. He was behind Peirce-L and has kept it as a high quality mailing list for years when the lifespan of most such things is [...]
Truth and OOO
I promise to get back to OOO as I still find it very interesting. However I still don’t have a lot of free time. I was reading an interesting post at Deontologistics that some might find interesting.
Paradox of Expressibility
On the paradox of expressibility. When you try to say what can’t be said. A nice overview of the issue with a particular focus on Frege.
A Defense of Presentism
I forgot to link to this during the period I was too busy to post much. It’s a link to Ned Markosian’s “A Defense of Presentism” (pdf). I personally don’t find the defense that persuasive. But this is a great paper outlining the standard attacks against Presentism as well as one of the best defenses [...]
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