Going OOO

So I’ll have a series of OOO posts starting hopefully tonight. My apologies on the delays. We had some big contracts at work I had to deal with and didn’t feel alert enough to dare write on philosophy. I’ve been reading Graham Harman’s Guerrilla Metaphysics. It’s a good book.  I actually like it much better [...]

Twin Studies

Twin studies are not useless.

Global Warming and the Right

OK, I promise I’ll be back to technical philosophy later tonight. I just wanted to promote two great blog posts about the Republican party and Global Warming. The first is from The Volokh Conspiracy while the second is Megan McArdle commenting on that post. Believe it or not Republican darling Chris Christie dared speak in [...]

Huntsman on GOP & Science

Huntsman on the Republican field and anti-science. Still don’t think he has a chance but it’s hard to argue with him here.

Beckwith on Mormonism and Natural Law

Francis Beckwith has an article up on Mormonism and Natural Law. Take a look at it. It’s interesting in that he’s trying to defend Mormonism against certain charges – especially in the political arena where Romney is assumed to be the de facto nominee. (Although it may be a little early to say that – [...]

Evolutionist Cartoon

There’s been an interesting graph making the rounds of Twitter and various blogs today. You’ve probably seen it. It’s from the web comic Calamities of Nature. It’s just a graph of belief in evolution versus per capita gross domestic product. It then has a fit for the data using an equation of the form y [...]

How Molecules Conduct

How molecules conduct electricity. Just for all you folks who thought it was only esoteric theoretical physics where we learning stuff.

Game Theory as Epistemology

Game Theory as Epistemology.

Darwin Wars

Interesting interview with John Haught over at Only a Game. Of course Haught is a Catholic theologian who has written a lot defending evolution and arguing against fundamentalist attacks on evolution. However he’s also been very critical of the scientism of man of the New Atheists. I really liked this bit in the interview: Chris: [...]

Popular Knowledge of Scientists

Interesting NYT article on the status of scientists. When asked to name a scientist, Americans are stumped. In one recent survey, the top choice, at 47 percent, was Einstein, who has been dead since 1955, and the next, at 23 percent, was “I don’t know.” In another survey, only 4 percent of respondents could name [...]

Problems of Attunement and Mood in Being and Time

Problems of Attunement and Mood in Being and Time over at The Chasm.  Very good.  Why does mood bring into relief what matters to us?  It’s true it does, phenomenologically — but why? Heidegger also treats values as present-at-hand and thus not that much of interest in his project. All that said is emotional life [...]

Hylemorphism

Hylemorphism, or the Thomist view of the soul. I didn’t realize this was in Aristotle rather than an innovation of Aquinas.

Blogosophy

In praise of blogosophy.  ”Philosophy is primarily an activity, not a body of doctrine.”

Why Does Anything Exist?

Why does anything exist? Interesting discussion in the comments.

The Great Divide

I’m not normally a Krauthammer fan. Actually I rarely like any pundit – they all seem wrong far more often than right. I also note the incentives for them aren’t to be accurate but to generate readers. Often a task much easier by generating controversy or preaching to the choir. (A general problem with the [...]

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