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 [...]

Anselm’s Ontological Argument and the Problem of Evil

Bill Vallicella has up a great post from tying Anselm’s ontological argument (in its strongest form) to the problem of evil. I kind of enjoy some of the other ways to read Anselm though. My favorite is the reading that doesn’t take Anselm as considering the “greatest conceivable being” but “a greater than which can [...]

Liberty vs. Equality

This fall has been even more ridiculous than my already insanely busy summer. So I’ve not been able to write much. However Bill Vallicella has up two posts that caught my attention. They are on Liberty vs. Equality. (Part 1 and Part 2) As regular readers know I’ve not done much in philosophical ethics – [...]

Best Introduction to Derrida?

The blog Deconstruction, Inc. had up an interesting question about what the best introduction to Derrida would be. For pure Derridean texts I have to agree that some of the interviews are a good place to start since Derrida is far less “demonstrative” in those texts. Derrida speaking clearly is often better to get started [...]

Pew on Marriage

Interesting new study from Pew Research on marriage. The “gap” in marriage between the educated and non-educated has basically disappeared (and may be going slightly in the opposite direction) The number of people getting married before 30 has definitely decreased significantly though. I wonder how much of that is due to the recession. Those married [...]

Peirce and Inference to Best Explanation

Yes, I’m still too busy to finish my Peirce and OOO discussion. Profuse apologies as I know it’s been over a month now. I did pick up Graham’s Guerrilla Metaphysics as I’m pretty convinced that’s necessary for some subtle points. We’ll see I guess. I am going off to the mountains to the north of [...]

Nibley, Heidegger and the Goods of First and Second Intent

Enowning had up a link to an interesting interview with Ken Golberg who mentions a class on technology he teaches with Hubert Dreyfus. …technology is really a “mode of being,” a sort of attitude or culture we are immersed in. It’s not something we can consciously adopt. It’s all around us, we’re engulfed in it. [...]

Some Quick Thoughts on Derrida and Plotinus

Sorry. Still behind. But Will had up a great post on Derrida and OOO. It immediately brought to mind some old thoughts of mine on Derrida and Plotinus. Effectively I think OOO is a kind of scholastic realism which acknowledges a kind of Heideggarian “like” withdrawal of the object. That is one considers the object [...]

Being in the World

Mark Wrathall sent a note about the film, Being in the World. “Being in the World” is heading for Northern California. Catch it at the Berkeley Film Festival at the Shattuck Cinemas on Saturday, Sept. 25th at 8:45 pm (http://berkeleyvideofilmfest.org/) or on Monday, Sept. 27th at 4:00 pm at the University of San Francisco in [...]

Peirce and Things

First, I hope to finish that OOP/Peirce post this weekend. Sorry, it’s just been insanely busy for me this last week or two. The kids school started which is quite early leading to early bedtimes for me, more or less killing any evening relaxation of doing philosophy. I’ve been thinking about the subject a lot [...]

Derrida on Sept 11

Yeah, I’ve still not had time to finish my Peirce/OOO post. For that matter I’m just getting around to reading some of the 9/11 discussion from last weekend. So I’m really behind it’s true. On 9/11 one interesting post was Ian Bogost’s on Derrida and 9/11. I have to admit I wasn’t at all happy [...]

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