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On Continental use of Realism. I have some comments on this but am on my way to San Francisco for a conference.
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The different paradigms for reading Heidegger. Gives the main schools of thought as well as a new model that challenges William Richardson a little. (I'm partial to Richardson's view that the change is primarily a change in focus - although clearly there are some differences in his thought) This is a fantastic paper to get at the main definitions of Heidegger and cut through a lot of the cruft.
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How free is God's will? I think there is an essential tension between early Jewish views in which God is a limited but purposeful quasi-anthropic actor and the Hellenistic views where God is the ontological ground of existence. You'll always run into problems reconciling the two.
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Working notes on Derrida's On Touching. I've not read this work and it sounds like I really should. Of course timewise...
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Empirically studying Heidegger's notion of ready-at-hand. They study the example I always give when explaining Heidegger: a mouse that doesn't track correctly. (HT: Enowning)
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Philosophy is Inquiry "We do not study Kant and Nietzsche and Heidegger to refute them or to agree with them, or to satisfy a need to have something to believe in, or a need to belong to a movement, or a craving for action-guiding beliefs. Philosophy is inquiry: an attempt at arriving at the sober impersonal truth to the extent that this is possible for such limited beings as we are." He sounds like a Peircean to me. (A bit of truth and a bit of a joke if you read his post)
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Brandon on Newton's argument against the Trinity. While I always knew of Newton's views I've never really paid attention to his reasoning before. This particular argument is rather relevant for Mormons. (IMO)
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Why trust Kant on ethics? I also like his bit about "gobbledy-gook." I know I'm in the distinct minority but I feel about Kant the way a lot of people feel about Derrida. (Although Brandon makes a good defense in the comments) That said I still think Kant raises some important questions and critiques of Hume.
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Jeff has up a new blog up, Stop that Crow. He's starting off discussing determinism in its various guises. We'll see if he addresses other topics. Jeff's been a frequent commenter here.
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FPR on Beck & Social Justice. His Rawlian reading of Mormonism is worth checking out as well.
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I’m Back

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San Francisco

Just a note. The reason there haven’t been any posts this week is because I’m in San Francisco. I’ll be back Monday and likely posting.

Server Up and Down

I’m getting ready to test moving our DNS entry to our new server and then seeing if everything works there. So things may be going up and down a bit today. My apologies if this inconveniences anyone.

Blog Update

Just a quick note. I updated the blog somewhat. The main bit was upgrading WP to 2.7.1. However I also added a few other features.

Various Musings (Twitter etc.)

OK, this is going to be a catch all for a few unrelated thoughts.
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We’re Back

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Type of Blog

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300,000 Visitors

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