About

Mormon Metaphysics is a blog primarily covering my interests in science, religion and philosophy.

Originally it was run off about a page and a half of Python code I wrote. It worked surprisingly well and I really liked the look. However it wasn’t quite as flexible as having all the data in a database and was a bear to clean up if spammers got through my barricades. So in early 2008 I switched it over to WordPress.

While many posts are about religion the blog actually tends to reflect whatever I’m studying at the moment. The primary philosopher I tend to focus on is the American pragmatist C. S. Peirce. However I’ve also read a lot in both Continental and Analytic philosophy and probably have an equal number of favorite writers in both traditions.

In the Continental tradition I’ve tended to focus in on the phenomenologists although I read them as embracing a kind of realism which is unlike how they tend to be read in Literature departments in the United States. The philosophers I’ve focused on the most have been Heidegger and Derrida although I’ve studied a fair bit of others.

In the Analytic tradition I’ve enjoyed philosophy of language and philosophy of mind quite a bit. The philosophers I tend to feel most affinity with are Davidson and Quine. While I enjoy Putnam I often find myself disagreeing with his view (which change a lot).

While I have to admit I can at best claim a superficial knowledge, over time I’ve come to see a lot of medieval philosophy as surprisingly relevant. I also have soft spots for Leibniz and Renaissance philosophy. (Even though admittedly the philosophical worth of Renaissance philosophy is dubious)

I also enjoy reading and studying philosophy of science and trying to weave a path between the two extremes of Popper and Kuhn.

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2 Responses to “About”
1 Kristin Parker on May 28th, 2008 2:24 pm

Greetings!

I am contacting as many Mormon bloggers as I can to spread the word about my petition, “LDS Financial Disclosure.” As you know, the Church does not disclose any of its financial records. Financial disclosure is an easy way for any organization to do right by its supporters and publicly declare that it is ethically managed and putting its funds to good use. Further, this will enable the church to clear the air of any detractors and demonstrate how it is using Church funds to bless lives. I wrote this petition to enable other Church members to contact Church authorities on this issue.

If this interests you, please sign and spread the word! Or blog about it :)
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Many Thanks!

Sincerely,

Kristin Parker

very interesting web log. I have recently started reading philosophy and have no background in it. So I will be back for more readings. Thank you so much for the link you left me in my web log.

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