This week: DSPT conference on philosophy and theology in Berkeley. See you there.
John Searle, who will be speaking at the conference, is interviewed by Tim Crane.
Does Darwinism eliminate teleology and intentionality, or does it explainteleology and intentionality? Some major naturalist philosophers hash it out in a new anthology reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Philosopher Stephen Mumford tweets that he is “really enjoying” and “finding it hard to put down” my book Aquinas. Thanks, Stephen! (Stephen’s book Laws in Nature, to which he refers in one of the tweets, is highly recommended.)
Less than three weeks left until Guardians of the Galaxy. Here’s the extended trailer. And the flick’s got a cool soundtrack. (But it’s not all fun and games. Check out “The Glory and Tragedy of Rocket Raccoon” for the sad story of Rocket’s co-creator Bill Mantlo, who could use all the help his family can get.)
John Gray on Michael Oakeshott, in Literary Review.
Franciscan University of Steubenville will be hosting a conference on “The Power of Beauty” this October. Roger Scruton is the plenary speaker.
Adam Bellow, founder of the Liberty Islandwebsite, on the subject of conservatives and pop culture in National Review. Liberty Island asks for your support.
Philosopher and Aristotle scholar James Lennox has posted many of his articles at Academia.edu.
Henry Koren’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animate Nature is perhaps the best of the old Neo-Scholastic manuals treating metaphysical questions concerning the nature of life, evolution, and the like. It has long been out of print, but is now being reprinted by Editiones Scholasticae.
Mark Anderson, author of Pureand of the forthcoming Plato and Nietzsche, has also authored a work of philosophical fiction: The Thinker-Artist. Details here.
Prof. Peter Adamson is presenting a “History of Philosophy without any gaps” in a series ofpodcasts. Details here.
In The New York Review of Books’ letters section, Marcia Cavell and Colin McGinn discuss McGinn’s recent exchange with Patricia Churchland.