Jon Steingard Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@transvangelical @ezraklein Aliens are among us - we call them cephalopods lol. But seriously check out “other minds” by Peter Godfrey Smith - really eye opening re: consciousness and cephalopods

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@NathanMHartman Take a peek at what David Chalmers coined “the hard problem of consciousness” - it’s a good starting point for philosophy of mind and why physicalism struggles to address consciousness.

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@BillyHallowell … things like faith vs works or circumcision or keeping Jewish law that Paul seemed to disagree with Peter and James on. Jesus’ own words in Matt 25 don’t seem to jive with Paul on how one is saved either.

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@jcamachott Wandering in the Darkness by Eleanore Stump, Darwin’s Cathedral by David Sloan Wilson, See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur, and David Hume’s work collected in this absurd title… https://t.co/NIe9hmO9Zs

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@jcamachott Wandering in the Darkness by Eleanore Stump, Darwin’s Cathedral by David Sloan Wilson, See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur, and David Hume’s work collected in this absurd title… https://t.co/NIe9hmO9Zs

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@CapturingChrist I grew up loving CS Lewis’s The Great Divorce so I’m sympathetic to this idea to some degree. Maybe that’s how it is. To me it just feels deeply unsatisfying to respond to unnecessary suffering with: “it’ll be fixed or worth it in the afterlife”.

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“Why is there something rather than nothing?” sounds pretty basic but you could spend a lifetime pondering that question.

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@TosinAwe1 I’d recommend Peter Singer’s “The Expanding Circle” - it’s a good introduction about evolution and moral intuitions.

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Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. - Desiderata, Max Ehrmann https://t.co/QwaCDD9AQv

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@patricknouwen @DarinKeim @Chadbourne @Xtianwanderer Also - Paul Tillich wrote about God as "ground of being" even earlier - you might find his work interesting.