(With apologies to The Eels.) This is a brilliant summary of my issue with meme theory from Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity: Originating in a set of radical proposals advanced by the biologist Richard Dawkins, memetics has come to embrace a great variety of competing arguments. There is no consensus, at yet at least, on [...]
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One rarely knows what is good for us and what is bad. Therefore if we knowingly put ourselves in the hands of Almighty, whatever happens must be deemed good. And I try literally to follow that precept.
Gandhi, "Letter to Francesca Standenath", April 1947
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Peace Games:
Game Theory and Peace
(PJSA Presentation)
It’s my birthday weekend, and for my birthday, I’d like to give you a gift. After a long delay, I finally sat down and recorded the presentation that I gave at the Peace and Justice Studies Association national conference. People have been asking for it, but life has been busy, and it is just now [...]
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A Philosophical Reading List
on Meaning and Knowledge
for Atheists
I just had an exchange with an atheist on Twitter who became incredibly condescending when I asserted there were ways of knowing other than empiricism. [EDIT: Said atheist has since deleted the tweet. It's still appearing in my timeline, though, and appears here.] These kind of exchanges are really frustrating, and they’re really much more [...]
