Monthly Archives: August 2008

Bad writing from good writers

Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 29, 2008 2 comments

A rather trivial post: Having recently read a collection of Orwell essays (review up soon), which included a re-read of /Politics and the English Language/, I’ve become a bit more sensitive to the sort of writing Orwell condemned there. It happens that I’ve come across a couple of really striking examples in books I otherwise [...]

What good science looks like

Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 29, 2008 0 comments

>>>This is another post from December of my first year of blogging.<<< Yesterday, I turned in a rather lengthy paper for chemistry class, the end product of I forget how many hours going to libraries, accessing online journal archives, figuring out what specialist-oriented articles were saying, and then typing the thing up. It’s something I [...]

A note on the meaning of “truth”

Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 28, 2008 4 comments

The nature of truth is often thought to have consequences for our thinking about religion, morality, and politics–not abstract consequences of the sort philosophers talk about, but the sort of consequences likely to come up on an op-ed page. It occurs to me, though, that there may be two different meanings of “truth” we’re dealing [...]

Carnivalia

Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 28, 2008 0 comments

*The 93rd Skeptic’s Circle is up at City of Skeptics. *The 98th Carnival of the Godless at is up at Letters from a broad. *The 76th Philosopher’s Carnival is up at Think It Over.

Rawls, part 1

Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 27, 2008 3 comments

>>>Okay, I’m finally getting back to the blogging schedule I set for myself when I launched this WordPress blog: lecture every Wednesday, Science Sunday on, well, Sunday. I promise to stick to it for at least the next couple months.<<< Today, we’re going to move from moral philosophy, which is generally concerned with individual actions, [...]