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Evidence and Religious Belief at NDPR.
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Adam has a nice post on how Levi Bryant's The Democracy of Objects can be helpful for religious thinking. I'll hopefully be going through Levi's book starting next week. I should add that one big problem with postmodernism is how so many (especially the religious) have used it as a kind of trump to play that allows cultural relativism. I refuse to use the term simply because how much abysmal writing and reasoning goes out under the label.
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The Hole Argument at the SEP. Arguably one of the most important more philosophical arguments made in physics. At least as important as Bell's Inequalities yet surprisingly far less known.
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Philosophical interpretations of E = mc^2 at the SEP. I don't think most people realize it's a deeper question than it appears.
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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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I’ve not done anything on OOO in over a year. I’ve just been too ridiculously busy. I have a bunch of Graham Harman’s books sitting here beside me on my nightstand waiting to be returned to. I’m hoping I can get back into them next week. However I was reading something by Levi today which [...]

Epigenetic Memory

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The End of Evolutionary Psychology?

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Hardy on the Book of Mormon and immigration.

Heidegger, Theology and Materialism

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American Christian (dis)Belief in the Resurrection

Interesting discussion where someone mentioned that most Christians don’t accept a bodily resurrection. I looked all over trying to find the poll and I think it was this one from Scripps Survey Research Center in 2006. The figures, if accurate, are pretty shocking. Some 1,007 adults were interviewed by phone from Feb. 19 to [...]

Peirce on Substance

Levi’s comments on substance in OOO I linked to earlier today got me thinking about Peirce. The issue is objects that have an effect versus those that don’t. Levi is, in his comments, getting at the distinction between having an effect and potentially having an effect I think. Peirce ends up adopting a similar distinction [...]

OOO Differences

There’s a great discussion going on regarding the differences between Graham Harman’s and Levi Bryant’s versions of Object Oriented Ontology. Harman has a post of his view of the differences and Levi has a response. I really want to return to OOO. There’s a lot I really like but there’s some key aspects of Harman’s [...]

Peirce’s Phenomenology and Phaneroscopy

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On the Myth of the Given

On the myth of the given. Is it really a myth? Interesting given how this myth is directly and indirectly given so much play in a big part of both 20th century Continental and Analytic thought.

Mormon are Average

I’d missed this. Over at the Inductivist a study of Mormon personality types. (Also here) Apparently we’re boringly normal. (i.e. normal distribution) Also note Razib’s post on Mormon averageness from last year.

Subjective Questions

Why subjective questions don’t work. It’s long been a feature of sociology I’ve distrusted. There are a few places they seem to work though.

Happy Church Attendance

Church attendance and happiness at Audacious Epigone. He always has such interesting stats.

History of Science

History of science: spoiling everybody’s party. Are historians of science spoilsports to popular science writing? Also at Blind Thermometer who pushes the discussion into the annoyance of histories of being first.

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