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Robert Fischer

Robert is currently a Masters of Divinity student at Duke Divinity School. His primary interests are in cultural conceptions of the mind, the cognitive science of religion, and neuroeconomics. Robert also has a background in software development, with particular interests in functional programming and concurrency. Robert’s hobbies include spending time with his dog (Phoenix) and open source software development.

Robert Fischer has written 595 posts for Enfranchised Mind. You can follow Robert on Twitter at @RobertFischer.

Gradle, Lift, and Google App Engine

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 21, 2012

I’m getting back into the game a little bit, and I decided to take a look at Lift for web development. After an initially promising experience, I became totally unhappy with Eclipse (it began forgetting I had Google App Engine libraries on the classpath after every clean). So I moved back to the command line. [...]

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Back Again to There: A Nontheistic Statement of Faithiness

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 20, 2012

[Editor's Note: This is a follow-up to There and Back Again. If you haven't read that post, start there (including the comments) and then come back.] I finally figured out what was bothering me. While driving to the Science Online 2012 open mic night and listening to Jon Watts’ Lifted Up, I suddenly had an [...]

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There and Back Again: A Journey Into and Out of Faith

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 15, 2012

For the last few years, I have been a seminary student. Although hardly “evangelical”, I entered seminary with a strong faith in a benevolent God that I attached to Christianity. At the end of last semester, however, that all collapsed, and I am left as a kind of weak atheist. The post mortem of my faith is a complicated narrative: there is no simple cause of death.

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My Introduction to ScienceOnline (#scio12)

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 15, 2012

This upcoming weekend, I will be attending ScienceOnline 2012. For years, I’d heard whisperings about the science conference that Duke’s own “Mister Sugar” helped organize, but my interest was never quite piqued enough to attend. This year, I heard AV Flox and Jason Goldman were coming, and that was enough to push me overboard. Since [...]

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OS-X: Using Tor for All HTTPS Connections

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 13, 2011

I am a big fan of Tor, especially as the Great Firewall of America is going up. I previously posted instructions on how to set up Tor on OS-X, and I wanted to update that guide a bit. One of the problems with Tor is that the entry nodes and exit nodes can see your [...]

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