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Balancing retention and sacrifice. A very interesting issue in Mormonism.
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Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out What Mormons Believe? Great post from a brand new Mormon blog over at Patheos. I wish every reporter would read this before writing on Mormons.
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A Motley Vision on Learning. A nice discussion of pro-intellectual thrusts in Mormonism with the few anti-intellectual elements.
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A Heideggerian response to David Chalmers. Consciousness is not a thing with properties the way a door has properties. A bit of pragmatism thrown in to boot.
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New Scientist has a religion issue up. Most of it is old stuff if you've followed even superficially the cognitive science of religion. I did like the interview with the atheist suggesting atheists grab what's good within religion. Honestly I think most atheists do this already - especially larger movements. Many forget that much of religion consists of applied basic human cognitive processes. We do it instinctively much like children change pigeon languages into more robust languages.
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Peirce's phenomenology and Being as the totality of appearing. Interesting to read along side Joseph Ransdell's "Is Peirce a Phenomenologist?" which attempts to note the differences from Husserl's phenomenology.
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Is Ketamine really an effective anti-depressant or is it all a placebo effect? Interesting critique about the null hypothesis. I didn't realize the problem with the double blind studies. (i.e. the placebo didn't have tranquilizer effects like ketamine)
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Depression: An Evolutionary Byproduct of Immune System? Something else was pointed out to me recently. If the immune system doesn't have something to fight it often turns on the body. Thus the increase in auto-immune diseases as we become healthier and cleaner.
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Levi Bryan has a nice blog post about Adam Miller's Speculative Grace. It has a great discussion of truth as assembled. I suspect Mormons reading it will recognize a certain way truth is sometimes used in LDS testimonies.
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The Heidegger film Being in the World is available for download now. It's a bit pricey (it's a purchase rather than a rental).
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Heidegger on Dewey

Despite having a lot of parallels with the pragmatism movement Heidegger had a very dim view of American philosophy and Dewey in particular. Pragmatism in general but Dewey in particular thoughts that philosophy had to include all the other kinds of experiences we have beyond what philosophy had traditionally considered. This was a scandal in [...]

Beyond Realism and Idealism

I’ve been reading, off and on, various blogs by speculative realists. Since I’m still recovering my health I’ve not delved into any of their formal works yet. (Plus I still have some Badiou and Davidson to finish before starting any new projects) Still, some of the blog posts, especially by Harman, really make me think. [...]

Heidegger and Science

I was discussing science, math and Heidegger the other day. I came upon a paper by Joseph Rouse that is useful. “Heidegger on Science and Naturalism” (PDF) He’s done quite a lot on it. The important thing to remember with Heidegger is that mathematics is more than numbers. Unsurprising since it is for mathematicians as [...]

PoMo Conservative against Atheists

The PostModern Conservative has a post up against New Atheism. “…hit the new atheists hard with the Heideggerian criticism of the vulgarity of their materialism. They cowardly avoid the question of being, of why is there is being rather than nothing at all, or of even why scientists or other free persons could come into [...]

Multitasking: Missing the Point?

Chris sent me an interesting story last week regarding the multitasking debate. It asks whether multitasking studies are missing the point. You probably recall the discussions on studies that those who multitask do more poorly than those who single task. Which, I think we all already knew from our personal experience. (I was honestly surprised [...]

German Mind

Brandon at Sirus posted a funny quote by Duhem on Kant: Highly skilled at deduction, the German mind is poorly endowed with common sense. It has a limitless confidence in the discursive method, whereas its confused intuition gives it only a weak assurance of the truth. Read the full quote and discussion at Sirus. He [...]

God, Dasein and Omniscience

It’s interesting to ask, in a Heideggarian context, what God’s knowledge consists of. That is when we ask about God’s knowledge we are asking in the traditional philosophical context of a way of knowing best called theoretic knowledge. (That is representational) I think Heidegger argues persuasively that this sort of knowledge is only possible against [...]

Why Heidegger?

OK, yes, still very busy. (I’m holding down the fort here at work alone which is a tad overwhelming) I thought I’d address a shorter question. Why do I find Heidegger interesting now? I have to admit that what I once studied 10 or even 5 years ago just isn’t what I’m interested in. Once [...]

Mormons, Origins and Heidegger

Yes, I know I’m way behind in posting. You’ll have to forgive me as life has been far busier than expected. I found something some of you might enjoy. This is from a review of The Philosophy of Edith Stein that Enowning linked to. Calcagno explains that Stein’s objection with Heidegger’s use of the term [...]

Does Heidegger Reify Language?

The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger has in it an unfortunate essay by Richard Rorty about how Heidegger reifies language. I don’t believe he does. But Rorty’s view is now “common accepted wisdom” (i.e. Das Man in Heidegger-talk) and gets repeated more than it should.

Peirce, Heidegger and Ready at Hand

Graham Harman has up a post about his theory of tool-use in Heidegger. (HT: Enowning) It’s an interesting post about ready-at-handedness in Heidegger. Heidegger has a famous passage where he analyzes hammers to make a larger point. He suggests that while hammering we don’t notice the hammer. When it is hidden like this it is [...]

Heidegger on Art

Hubert Dreyfus has up a nice article on Heidegger on Art (HT: Enowning) It ends up covering a lot of issues from the later Heidegger.

Defining God

Sorry for the delay in posts folks. Things got busy. In the meantime Enowning had a great little quote from a blog on God and Heidegger.

Heidegger’s Transformations of Husserl

I was reading John van Buren’s excellent paper on Heidegger’s thought as a radicalization of Husserl. It’s “The Young Heidegger and Phenomnelogy” in Dreyfus’ and Wrathall’s Heidegger Reexamined (which if you look around you can find as a PDF so you don’t need pay the ridiculous Amazon price which is over $200). Van Buren argues [...]

Heidegger vs. Levinas

I’ve read a reasonable amount of Levinas but am anything but a Levinasian. (And the Levinasians love to let me know that) I do think that how I approach philosophy (and Heidegger) is quite influenced by Levinas though. Having said all that it always seemed to me that Levinas’ criticisms of Heidegger were a bit [...]

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