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Thursday, July 03, 2008 - Posts

• Two Thoughts on Prominent Converts

  Suppose that a founder (or other prominent adherent) of some philosophy theory X later comes to repudiate this theory. Does their conversion have epistemic significance for onlookers to the debate over X? It's often treated as evidence against X. ("Even Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 08:40 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under epistemology - metaevidence

• A Jordan without the Hashemites

  Jordan was taken by surprise with the candid interview given by HM King Abdullah II to the official Jordanian news agency Petra. The complete text of the interview can be read in Black Iris Blog. The interview answered a lot of the hot questions and worries Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 04:54 from Batir Wardam Blog | 0 Comments Filed under Democracy in Jordan, Political Reform

• Shingles & WILDfires

  Yikes, bad news from the Jones Fam front. Reunion is OFF due to shingles! My bro was ready to leave Scotland today for his sons' first EVER trip to America, and the boys come down with shingles and CANNOT fly. I am SO disappointed. WWAAAAAAAAA. Santa Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 04:06 from my treasure | 0 Comments

• Indianapolis Musings

  I just love road trips, even with four kids in the car. Especially my kounouz, they are just so full of their own funny outside-in observations of American life. We played the license plate game, but there are a LOT of Stay-cationers out there: we only Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 02:01 from my treasure | 0 Comments

• Brain Damage and Physicalism

  Ookla-fry writes : If dualism were correct then brain damage wouldn't effect cognitive ability. Simple as that. This is a surprisingly common misconception. (Neuroscience student K.L. Dickson makes similar claims here .) It arises from a simple confusion Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 10:25 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under mind

• Dual Citizenship

  I usually don't believe all the emails that I receive. But today I have received this list of US Government officials who carry Dual Citizenships (US & Israeli). As much as I don't want to believe this list, as much as I want someone to validate it. It Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 05:30 from Ali | 0 Comments

• Rapidshare Search

  Recently i am addicted to downloading songs, documentaries and magazines from various file sharing websites, like rapidshare, sharedzilla, nineshare, 4shared and many many others. The problem with those websites is that most of them does not have a built Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 12:53 from Adel Blog | 0 Comments Filed under 4shared, rapidshare search

• The Danish Ambassador blog

  The Ambassador of Denmark in Jordan started his own blog to address the Jordanian-Danish issues. He states that his stay in Amman has been positive so far and that he is amazed of the friendliness and openness of the Jordanians. On his blog he is trying Read More... Posted 03-07-2008 12:13 from The Arab Observer | 0 Comments