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.

Agency, Oughts and Economics

The other day while mentioning The Triumph of Practice over Theory in Ethics I’d discussed Sterba’s use of the “ought implies can” principle. I suggested that I think where problems occur in his attempts to reconcile Utilitarianism with Kantian approaches is over how “liberally” one should take that principle. One could say that so long [...]

Philosophy Useless?

The Eternal Universe commented on a recent editorial about how philosophy is bankrupt. There have been similar editorials of late including one in the NYT a few months back. (Sadly I couldn’t find it quickly) The basic idea is that philosophy has failed since it can’t give practical answers to politicians. “Philosophy, it seems to [...]

Ethics and an Other Book

I forgot to mention in that last post an other book I’m reading. This one is a bit of an oddity for me as it’s in the field of ethics. Now I’m an ethics skeptic. Outside of a bit of Levinas the only real style of Ethics I like is Moore’s. However I just have [...]

What I’m Reading

I’m slowly getting back into my academic mindset. I still don’t have quite the disposable time I once did. But it’s nice to exercise my mind a bit more in different ways than just business and maintaining home and family. It’s one of those things I miss. Now if I can just get my exercise [...]

Vagueness

I thought I’d start getting back into the blog after a few months away by talking about vagueness. I’ve talked a lot about vagueness over the years since it is such a key concept in Peirce’s philosophy. Peirce adopts the most popular approach to vagueness by making it an epistemological issue. That is for a [...]

Update

As you may have noticed the site has been largely dead the past few months. I’ve been really, really swamped with work. However I do have some posts have written. I’ve finally even had time to be able to start reading a bit of philosophy again. So posts are coming. I promise. In the meantime [...]

Bleeding Heart Libertarians

There’s a new blog up: Bleeding Heart Libertarians. More or less it appears to be a blog for Libertarians who aren’t opposed to social justice. Pretty interesting and more on the philosophical side of things rather than just a typical politics or economics blog. I’m intrigued as social justice is one big reason I’m opposed [...]

Slowly Getting Back to Philosophy

I think it safe to say I’ve not had a lot of time for philosophy the last year. Other than a delving into the OOO fracas this summer (and perhaps a couple of posts where I wished I’d read and studied a bit more before writing) I’ve not really done much profound reading. I have [...]

Joe Ransdell on Descartes’ Dualism

I don’t think I mentioned it here yet but Joe Ransdell died recently. He was one of the great Peirce scholars and did quite a bit to help Peircean scholarship progress. He was behind Peirce-L and has kept it as a high quality mailing list for years when the lifespan of most such things is [...]

The Inequality that Matters

Tyler Cowan (of Marginal Revolution fame) has a great article on inequality at The American Interest: “The Inequality that Matters” A lot of the points he makes are ones I’ve made before here. The differences in equality between Bill Gates and myself are relatively minor. Contrast this with say 100 years ago when the opportunities [...]

Jim Faulconer and Patheos

Jim Faulconer is now writing a weekly column at Patheos. Jim’s had a great influence on my intellectual development even though I never really encountered him at BYU while I was there. (He was Dean of the honors department so I’m sure I did bump into a him a few times) However after college Dennis [...]

Mastery and Value

Over at Secular Right Razib links to a paper by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute that goes through purported problems between evolution and conservatism. Now clearly I’m a theist but I find a lot of the purported problems between evolution and faith pretty lame. Without going through all the problems in the paper let me suggest [...]

Do Octopi Have Multiple Minds?

Do octopi have multiple minds? (HT: Marginal Revolution) Octopuses have large nervous systems, centered around relatively large brains. But more than half of their 500 million neurons are found in the arms themselves, Godfrey-Smith said. This raises the question of whether the arms have something like minds of their own. Though the question is controversial, [...]

Cognition: In the Head?

There’s a great review that gets at the issue of externalism of cognition being linked to alot. Note that the topic isn’t content externalism but whether cognition can be said to be all in the head. I think the arguments for content externalism have been remarkably strong and hard to overcome. Cognition is a slightly [...]

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