Reading Log, 2009

Submitted by lukeprog on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 06:49
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  1. [Skimmed] A Practical Companion to Ethics and Creative Problem-Solving in Ethics by Anthony Weston: These can be useful even without a meta-ethical theory behind them, in the same way that critical thinking is useful even before someone learns logic. Weston is that rare philosopher who is just as familiar with de Bono as he is with Russell.
  2. [Skimmed] How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson
  3. [Skimmed] God? by William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
  4. [Skimmed] The Wisdom to Doubt by J.L. Schellenberg: Presents several new arguments for non-belief, but of course they are muddled and complicated re-deployments of the old arguments.
  5. [Liked] 30,000 Years of Art by Phaidon
  6. [Skimmed] The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 4th edition by Bart Ehrman
  7. [Liked] Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker
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Reading Log, 2008
lukeprog02/28/2009

The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative

lukeprog03/23/2009

My current political leanings, according to this test.

It should be noted that I felt like answering "I don't know" to about 1/5 of the questions, and that all my opinions are easily open to change, since politics is very complicated and I don't have time to be an expert in the effects of certain policies.

Basically, I advocate an anti-ideological political stance, an "empirical politics."

But, I happily have some pretty good company: Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.

Elston03/24/2009

I was located in a nearly identical position on the compass as you were, (-2. -7), a bit more Right, and a bit more Libertarian. I second your notion of 'empirical politics'. As Nassim Taleb remarked, "Get rid of ideas, they are bad for you." (in the context of economic practices).

lukeprog03/27/2009

Oooh, yeah, I like that better.

lukeprog04/05/2009

This is the last straw. I'm finally moving to Australia.

lukeprog07/06/2009

I'm not sure Obama will make the world a better place rather than a worse place, but whatever he does, he will look great doing it.

Elston07/07/2009

heh, no kidding. That'd be some good sodomy.