Maverick Philosopher on Mormonism & God

I had hoped January would have been a little less busy. Unfortunately it ended up being even more busy than December! Still I’m trying to resuscitate this blog. Writing blog posts is the way I get to think through a lot of issues. Reading alone is insufficient to think, in my view. One way I’m [...]

New Years Resolutions

I’ve got a few New Years resolutions. Normally I hate such things but this year I want to get back into my more academic studies. I’ve been so busy the past years that things have fallen farther and farther behind. My first big resolution is to get caught up on my reading of Object Oriented [...]

Knowledge and the Dogmatism Paradox

Really interesting post up by Richard at Philosophy Etc. It’s basically about a problem regarding new evidence against something you know. If I know that h is true, I know that any evidence against h is evidence against something that is true: so I know that such evidence is misleading. But I should disregard evidence [...]

Going OOO

So I’ll have a series of OOO posts starting hopefully tonight. My apologies on the delays. We had some big contracts at work I had to deal with and didn’t feel alert enough to dare write on philosophy. I’ve been reading Graham Harman’s Guerrilla Metaphysics. It’s a good book.  I actually like it much better [...]

Beckwith on Mormonism and Natural Law

Francis Beckwith has an article up on Mormonism and Natural Law. Take a look at it. It’s interesting in that he’s trying to defend Mormonism against certain charges – especially in the political arena where Romney is assumed to be the de facto nominee. (Although it may be a little early to say that – [...]

Darwin Wars

Interesting interview with John Haught over at Only a Game. Of course Haught is a Catholic theologian who has written a lot defending evolution and arguing against fundamentalist attacks on evolution. However he’s also been very critical of the scientism of man of the New Atheists. I really liked this bit in the interview: Chris: [...]

Levi, Ethics and Politics

Levi has a great post on Badiou whom he applies towards the question of ethics and politics.  A few excerpts. Badiou’s ethics is not designed to formulate a set of rules that would tell us how to respond to situation x (hence the “one size fits all” critique is a bit of a red herring [...]

Derrida and OOO

I’ve not done anything on OOO in over a year.  I’ve just been too ridiculously busy.  I have a bunch of Graham Harman’s books sitting here beside me on my nightstand waiting to be returned to.  I’m hoping I can get back into them next week.  However I was reading something by Levi today which [...]

Heidegger, Theology and Materialism

Saw this over at Enowning.  Seems relevant here since Mormonism is such a religion about materialism. John D. Caputo on Martin Hägglund‘s Radical Atheism, from The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 11.2.

Peirce on Substance

Levi’s comments on substance in OOO I linked to earlier today got me thinking about Peirce. The issue is objects that have an effect versus those that don’t. Levi is, in his comments, getting at the distinction between having an effect and potentially having an effect I think. Peirce ends up adopting a similar distinction [...]

OOO Differences

There’s a great discussion going on regarding the differences between Graham Harman’s and Levi Bryant’s versions of Object Oriented Ontology. Harman has a post of his view of the differences and Levi has a response. I really want to return to OOO. There’s a lot I really like but there’s some key aspects of Harman’s [...]

Experimental Philosophy and Free Will Needs a Makeover

Very interesting post at Flickers of Freedom arguing that the way intuitions are dealt with in the free will debate is problematic. Incompatibilists do not simply assert that the truth of their conclusion.  They develop (often ingenious) ways of revealing the threat of determinism to free will and MR.  In doing so, they certainly appeal to [...]

Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and Epistemology

Nice quote from Ricoeur from over at Critical Hermeneutics

Terms I Hate

There are a lot of philosophical language that has entered the popular vernacular. However there are a few terms I just hate, hate, hate. I’ve more or less reconciled myself to these terms. Occasionally I’ll even use them myself because…well because I can’t think of anything better. Here’s my list: Framing

Heidegger on Presencing and Nothing

Great quote I found over at Critical Hermeneutics that does a really nice summary of a key aspect of Heidegger’s Being and Time.

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