I wish I lived in a world where it was socially not weird to walk up to people and lay out my philosophical commitments like a collection of treasures. Deciphering other people’s commitments, as well as my own, is one of my favorite pastimes. And it seems there are always layers to what people say, even when they are being very earnest. One of my favorite things about being a scholar and a humanist is that, when I earnestly lay out my ideological commitments as best I can, sometimes it isn...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?| Contending Modernities
Galen recently wrote a wonderful response to my “Fool’s Gold” essay, trying to pinpoint where he and I disagree about when it comes to pragmatic theories of representation. This letter won’t make much sense unless you’ve first read his salvo. Epistemic status very much “Fumbling around in the dark”—lots of ideas and discourses invoked that […]| Suspended Reason
A short post to accompany the Primitive Peacemakers series, with some quotes from Middlemarch that otherwise wouldn’t make it in. Eliot repeatedly returns to the observation that individuals&…| Suspended Reason
Without question, the Law Amendment and its call to restrict the office of pastor to qualified men has capture the attention of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Pastors, SBC entity presidents…| Witkowski Blog
Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to wha…| Suspended Reason
I assume some familiarity with basic concepts in the area of anthropics (a.k.a. self-locating beliefs or imperfect recall) and decision theory. A pragmatist maxim of action relevance Consider the f…| The Universe from an Intentional Stance