Beck Good for Mormonism?
WP on whether Glenn Beck’s rise is good for Mormonism. It’s a mixed bag. It seems to reduce the animosity by some Evangelicals towards us but inflames more liberals towards us. He’s definitely not representative of us, from what I can see. But then who is?
Consciousness and Responsibility
Being conscious of one’s own motive is not a necessary condition for moral responsibility. Or so says people’s intuitions.
Glenn Beck and the Stoics
Levi reads Glenn Beck in light of the Stoics. I know next to nothing about Beck’s actual beliefs beyond his being highly influenced by Skousen’s conspiracy theories from the 50′s (and perhaps Skousen’s theology?). BTW – I mean to reply to Levi’s post on Peirce and OOP but just have been swamped.
Biosemiotics
New Scientist has an article on biosemiotics. It’s pretty interesting and avoids a lot of the hyperbole NS sometimes falls prey to. I really think Peircean styled semiotics will be the wave of the 21st century. In many ways OOP is just retracing his steps (albeit with slightly different metaphysics in some cases).
Human Nature is Depressing
Human nature is depressing. Doing good viewed as bad. This seems like a pretty obvious and common fact about human behavior to me. It’s not the only aspect to human nature though but heaven knows we have some bad instincts.
Virus for Chronic Fatigue Syndome
Virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I mentioned a prior study last year.
Alternatives to Peer Review
NYT on the alternatives to the normal journal & peer review route. Weird they didn’t mention arxiv which is the physics paper repository site. That was started at Los Alamos way back in 1991. It switched names and location to Cornell in 1999. The humanities are johnny come latelies to all this.
Kurt Gödel and the Misprint Demons
Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein and the misprint demons at BCC. Some of the other stories about Gödel in the comments are nearly as good.
Signs and Objects
What are Signs and Objects for Peirce? Also see Objects in the Peirce Dictionary.
OOO and QM
OOP and Quantum Theory
Mormons and Muslims in America
Mormons and Muslims in America. An interesting set of questions given the whole mosque near ground zero issue.
Clark Pinnock Dies
Clark Pinnock has died. He was one of the Evangelicals behind Open Theism. He and David Paulsen edited Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies and had a chapter within it on Open Theism. While I don’t agree with Open Theism it was one of the better chapters in that volume.
Reclaiming the Imagination
One of my favorite contemporary philosophers, Timothy Williamson, is now writing for the New York Times. His first post is “Reclaiming the Imagination”. It’s interesting. A bit of Evolutionary Psychology on imagination.
Science and Metaphysics
Science and metaphysics. A blog event. Read the blurb.
What a CC Skimmer Looks Like
What a credit card skimmer looks like. Useful information. The police busted one on the 7-11 a block from here last winter. In Orem, UT of all places.
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