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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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Neuroscience and Evil

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.”

Knowledge and the Dogmatism Paradox

Really interesting post up by Richard at Philosophy Etc. It’s basically about a problem regarding new evidence against something you know. If I know that h is true, I know that any evidence against h is evidence against something that is true: so I know that such evidence is misleading. But I should disregard evidence [...]

Heidegger and OOO

Heidegger, realism, and OOO Very nice post. I’m still working through Harman. I favor the “hyper-realist” readings of Derrida and Heidegger regardless of whether they are the thinkers own. The too speculative nature of OOO makes me pretty uncomfortable though.

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