LDS Philosophy Blogs

Just a note on some Mormon philosophy blogs. I keep meaning to mention them.

Ostler Reading Club: Of God and Gods

I’d mentioned a little while ago about the plan to do a reading club on Blake’s newest book Exploring Mormon Thought: On God and Gods. I’ve read the first two chapters which are quite good. I hope others - especially those with blogs - decide to comment on it. I know several of [...]

The Problem of Evil and Wanting to Not Get What You Want

Over at Crooked Timber earlier this month there was an interesting point about how sometimes we want to not get what we want. The example the author used was not wanting ones football team to always win so there was a bit of excitement, suspense and challenge. I think this ends up being [...]

Best of the Week 6: Academic LDS

(Whoops, sorry about that old header - my bad) Here’s this week’s “best of” for more academic oriented posts on Mormon topics. I’ve found there’s just so many blogs out there now and most tend to post of fluff (IMO). There are always a few blogs that go after the more technical [...]

Mormons and Pelegianism

Pelegianism is a topic that often comes up (especially from critics) regarding Mormonism. While I think philosophers like Sterling McMurrin vastly overstate the degree of Pelgianism in Mormonism I suspect that if you asked most Mormons a series of common questions most would tend towards Pelagian answers. Of course one problem is that [...]

Best of the Week 5: Academic LDS

Hey, I’m doing better. It was only a week and a half this time since my last best of. There are a ton this time though. I’ll try breaking them up by theme a bit more.

Misc: Reading Club on Ostler

Just a few various short notes.
First off my copy of Blake’s third volume of Exploring Mormon Thought arrived. I gather there were a bunch of publishing problems including a large recall by the publisher due to bad bindings. Amazon still doesn’t sell it for some reason but they have a few [...]

Best of the Week 4: Academic LDS

OK, I sort of went a month without doing this after saying it was going to be a weekly thing. Oops. But here’s me playing catchup. These probably aren’t quite as complete as they could be. But they are the ones that caught my memory.

Responsibility, Ignorance and our Duty

Sorry to keep harping on the free will debate. I know some aren’t interested. I should have some other posts coming as well as the much promised post on revisionist accounts of responsibility. I sort of wanted to get a lot of this out of my system so I could think about [...]

Truth vs. Truth

I was listening to Dreyfus’ existentialism lectures on my drive home. He was discussing the two traditions that make up the western tradition. The first was Greek and basically was what we’d term absolutism and the traditional categories of philosophical thought (epistemology, ethics, ontology). In that tradition truth is correspondence between thought [...]

Mormon Free Will Redux

I’ve not posted on free will for a while. (My last main posts were on responsibility and foreknowledge, time and chance, and then Mele II) Over at New Cool Thang there was a discussion about free will that got me thinking about it again.
So let me summarize some of the conclusions I’ve reached [...]

Claiming Christ: Evangelical - Mormon Dialogue

I was going to put this in the sidebar but it was too good to relegate there. There’s a really interesting post up a Summa Theologica on Mormon/Evangelical dialog. Check it out. The best part is this quote:

Misc LDS Stuff

Two quick miscellaneous posts. The first is a Book of Mormon survey. (Sorry I kept forgetting to mention it) This was discussed at BCC last week. There’s one counterfactual question I’m a bit iffy on. But other than that it sounds like an interesting survey on how Mormons view the [...]

Academics and Mormons

A constant discussion at some of the more academically oriented LDS blogs is the relationship between Mormonism and Academics. Is there a tension? Does ones Mormonism influence ones intellectual pursuits? The one thing that I think most Mormons have emphasized is the strong push in our culture to gain learning. At [...]

Best of the Week 3: Academic LDS

OK, I missed last week due to being ridiculously busy. But here’s my “best of the web” on more academic oriented LDS blog posts. As ever, if I forgot something you think others would be interested please let us know in the comments.

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