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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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.

Hey, thanks for the plug in your sideblog. I was looking for some way to contact you and I can’t seem to find any. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on your blog here; anyone who puts stock in Popper and Kuhn must have something going for them, in my book :)

Hi thank you for your interesting blog. I will continue to read it, If you ever stop by Sweden I will buy you ice-cream or similar as a thanks :)

My business partner is actually headed to Sweden for the chocolate show there. So you can say hi to him.

This blog is pretty much turning into a directional tool for other stuff I write. ,

Clark:

Are you a member of the smpt? Do you have any insight on the mp3 files of the recent conference? For some reason I can not access them.

Are they up? If so send me the link and then I’ll fix the permissions.

Note you have to be a SMPT member to access them.

I am an SMPT member, I am able to access the past element articles, and I am able to get to the links for the digital audio. Here is the general link to the conference:

http://www.smpt.org/member_resource/audio.html

And here is an example link to my specific presentation:

http://libertypages.com/smpt/member_resource/podcast/10/Saturday/22-%20Eric%20Nielson-%20Literal%20Spirit%20Birth.mp3

Still nothing….

Hey, Clark. Congrats on this story:

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top%20stories/story/Best-chocolate-bean-in-the-world-now-available-in/WCK5glmky0izf6q_6mKqmw.cspx

Thanks Lincoln – lots of press the past couple of weeks. Lots of 12 and in a few cases 16 hour days at work too…

Eric, I’ll check in on that as soon as I get back from Seattle. I’m hoping to get caught up on reading Badiou and Graham Harman’s OOP on the trip.

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