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• For people who don’t get Twitter, Facebook, etc. Nice story ~ other people can read it too

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 480
  This is a long story and a tame story in many respects, read on . . . I am a psychologist. Any one who has majored in psychology knows that we are trained at university and college to be distant from our clients. We are even trained to call people “subjects” – or we were in my day. We are also trained to see ...
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• Darknesses

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 404
  The limit or non-limit of darkness is its terrifying feature – if  the darkness is expansive and not invasive (oil or plague like, creeping inside organisms) then it is its formalized bound that must be decided which also allows for the possibility of a darkness within darkness. Take the following from Ligotti’s ...
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• Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance - Part II

  
  Science in the open — Authority: 446
  This is the second of two posts discussing the talk I gave at the Science 2.0 Symposium organized by Greg Wilson in Toronto in July. As I described in the last post Jon Udell pulled out the two key points from my talk and tweeted them. The first suggested some ideas about what the limiting unit of science, or ...
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• Contemplative Consciousness – The Nondual Way

  
  Ephemeral Thoughts — Authority: 427
  Father Richard Rohr discusses Integral Spirituality, Christian Contemplative Spirituality, his new book , and non-duality in these series of lectures presented at Boulder Integral . Part One: Part Two: Part Three: Share/Save
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• Resolving the Riddle: A Second Simple Note in Ontology & Epistemology (Or, There is No Necessary Theist vs Atheist Conflict)

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: A few days ago, I said: “For myself, I have come to a belief that the Universe was never created and will never be destroyed (though of course changes all the time). But true-false, right-wrong, good-evil, good-bad etc exist, and exist objectively in the sense that they would apply to ...
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• Artemether: Entity of the Month

  
  O'Really? — Authority: 396
  November’s entity of the month at ChEBI is the antimalarial drug Artemether . This accompanies release 62 of ChEBI, not just yet another incremental release but an increase of more than twentyfold in the number of entities in ChEBI, thanks to merging of data between an updated ChEBI [1] and ChEMBL [2]. ...
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• Mereological Considerations in Object-Oriented Ontology

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 510
  In response to a recent post , Paul Bains raises a number of questions that I believe are worth responding to as they often come up in relation to object-oriented ontology. Paul writes , Trees = ‘big’ multicellular perennial green plants (which obviously lack semovience/self-movement). So, at the risk of the ...
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• An example each of dogmatism and scepticism in theology

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook  (Subroto Roy’s Notes): An example each of dogmatism and scepticism in theology “The only God worth keeping is a God that cannot be kept. The only God worth talking about is a God that cannot be talked about. God is no object of discourse, knowledge, or even experience. He cannot be spoken ...
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• Realism, Epistemology, Science, and Scientism

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 510
  In a recent remark responding to one of my posts , Dan quotes me and goes on to propose some critical commentary on my claims: “While the sun certainly enters into political compositions within being, the sun is what it is regardless of whether or not politics is. Presumably the sun was over 5 billion years ago ...
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• Hello from Hinxton

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 103
  So in my last post I pretty much said good-bye to the Unilever Centre and the people there and now it is time for a hello – a hello to a new job. I have recently joined the Department of Genetics and the group of Prof Ashburner as a Research Associate. While I am formally employed by the university, I will, ...
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• A simple note in ontology and epistemology

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy says: “For myself, I have come to a belief that the Universe was never created and will never be destroyed (though of course changes all the time). But true-false, right-wrong, good-evil, good-bad etc exist, and exist objectively in the sense that they would apply to mankind’s deeds ...
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• Of Sutures– Speculative Realism Round-Up

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 510
  Why is it that all the interesting and fun things happen when I’m drowning in grading? In response to Nina’s recent post raising questions about the recent realist turn and focus on ontology in continental thought there have been a flurry of responses. Nick was quick to throw in his two cents with three posts ...
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• Heidegger’s Being-unto-Death

  
  The Mustard Seed — Authority: 123
  A small excerpt taken from The Excerpt Mill on Heidegger’s views on possibility and death: Being-towards-death, an anticipation of possibility, is what first makes this possibility possible, and sets free as possibility.
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• The Unnatural Natural

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 404
  In a recent post Reid writes: “If the difference between nature and artifice is itself artifice, then it seems in vain to probe into uncontaminated nature, which itself exists in its distinction only on behalf of artifice, and as itself artifice.” Reid writes that this does not lead to social constructivism ...
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• Three Distinctions that Need to Be Rethought and Abandoned

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 510
  Seventy more essays to grade and a mind that has been reduced to mush as a result of reading student writing. At least I’m finally making some progress in the face of the pile of grading that’s been haunting me for the last couple of weeks. As I reflect on a number of debates surrounding Speculative Realism and, ...
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• Racing to the bottom or Doomful Nature

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 404
  Over at Infinite Thought , Nina has a post critiquing a ‘race to the bottom’ in contemporary philosophy; a trend in thought which purportedly draws politics from the laws of nature and asserts the meaninglessness of nature and philosophy.  The post makes a number of statements which need to be addressed.  ...
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• 4 “get your head arounds” of the new science of psychology

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 480
  Today, a very useful though long blog post on the new science of psychology popped up on my Google Alerts.  Blogspot was acting slow, so here are my comments. #1 Formal differences between classical science and new science For 20 or so key terms describing the difference between old fashioned methods & stats ...
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• Transcendental Realism?

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 510
  Returning to the theme of transcendental arguments once again, why is it that these arguments have taken the form of a transcendental idealism rather than a transcendental realism . Recall the basic form of transcendental arguments as nicely articulated in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ...
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• Speculative Realism, Armies of Objects, and the Social Sciences

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 510
  Over at the blog err…whatever z. snugglebus I has posted a couple of nice posts on Speculative Realism. Before getting to the actual content of the posts, I’d first like to note that I love it that here in the blogosphere making interesting and thoughtful remarks with names like “snugglebus”. Moving on to ...
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• Ontological Ponderings

  
  ShelterIt - My digital think-tank — Authority: 446
  The last few months have been interesting for me in a philosophical sense. My job is on an architectural level in using ontologies in software development, both in the process ( development, deployment, documentation ), the infra-structure ( SOA, servers, clusters ) and the end result of it ( business applications ). ...
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