My Claremont Review of Books review of John Gray’s The Silence of Animalsis now available for free online.
Keith Parsons has now wrapped up our exchange on atheism and morality at The Secular Outpost.
The latest from David Oderberg: “Could There Be a Superhuman Species?” Details here.
Liberty Island is an online magazine devoted to conservatism and pop culture. Music writer extraordinaire (and friend of this blog) Dan LeRoy is on board.
James Franklin asks “What is mathematics about?” (See also his new book An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics.)
Mary Midgley’s new book Are You an Illusion? takes aim at scientism and eliminativism. Some praise from The Guardian and an interview in Financial Times.
The archives of Laval theologique et philosophiqueare available online. Take a look at the Charles de Koninck material.
Our buddy Mike Flynn on science fiction writer Thomas Disch and Catholicism.
Is there anything that couldn’t be a mere social construct? Yes: causation, says metaphysician Stephen Mumford.
Hilary Putnam has a blog.
A reader recently called my attention to Kenneth Sayre’s new history of the philosophy department at Notre Dame. For us Catholic philosophy geeks, it’s a page turner.
Speaking of geeks, The Atlantic and The Guardian fret over Marvel’s forthcoming Dr. Strange movie. But The Independent is jazzed.
At The New Criterion, Steven Hayward on conservatives and higher education.
There’s been a lot of talk on this blog of late about classical theism versus theistic personalism and Aquinas versus Scotus. Marilyn Adams combines the themes in “What’s Wrong with the Ontotheological Error?”
Churchland vs. McGinn at The New York Review of Books. (HT: Bill Vallicella.)