Back from a very pleasant (but exhausting!) week in Princeton. While I regroup, some reading to wind down the summer:
Andrew Fulford at The Calvinist International kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics. Stephen Mumford tweets a kind word about the book. Thanks, Stephen!
It’s bold. It’s new. It’s long overdue. It’s The Classical Theism Project. Check it.
At NDPR, Thomas Williams reviewsThomas Osborne’s new book Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham.
Also at NDPR, David Clemenson reviews Craig Martin’s Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science.
Our buddy Mike Flynn on medieval science fiction. (By the way, when you click on the post, take note of the link on the left to Mike’s fine anthology Captive Dreams. I should, perhaps, have been especially keen to call attention to this book when it first came out. The reason why is the same reason why I didn’t. In his short story “Places Where the Roads Don’t Go,” Mike has a character appeal to my work in arguing with another character about AI. Very flattering, but also a little embarrassing! Thanks again, Mike!)
Speaking of science fiction, BuzzFeedconsiders why the Guardians of the Galaxysoundtrack is so shamelessly unhip it’s hip. (As Mordecai on Regular Show would say, sometimes you gotta go insane to out-sane the sane. Know what I’m sayin’?)
Edmund Burke’s influence on politics is examined at Standpoint magazine.
Is your soul Short, Tall, Grande, or Venti? James Chastek suggests a very useful analogy at the always interesting Just Thomism blog.
At another always interesting blog: The Smithy alerts us to some forthcoming books on Scotus.
Uncovering the mysteries of Steely Dan. A pseudo-interview with Becker and Fagen.
I somehow missed this one back in January. Philosopher Stephen Asma explains how teleology has risen from the grave.