My review of Charles Bolyard and Rondo Keele, eds., Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic appears in the May 2015 issue of Metaphysica.
At Thomistica.net, Thomist theologian Steven Long defends capital punishment against “new natural lawyer” Chris Tollefsen.
In the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, physicist Carlo Rovelli defends Aristotle’s physics.
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Christopher Martin reviews Brian Davies’ Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: A Guide and Commentary.
John Searle’s new book Seeing Things as They Are is reviewed in The Weekly Standard.
At The Critique, Graham Oppy on academic atheist philosophers of the last 60 years.
The Institute of Thomistic Philosophy will hold its first Aquinas Summer School in August of 2016. Details here.
What makes Pope Francis tick? Ross Douthat investigates at The Atlantic.
Irish atheists disassociate themselves from New Atheist buffoon P. Z. Myers.
James Franklin’s An AristotelianRealist Philosophy of Mathematicsis reviewed in Philosophia Mathematica. (Full text here.) And there’s lots of content to be found at Franklin’s Academia.edu website as well as at his university website.
Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton is interviewed at The Spectator.
The New York Review of Bookson F. A. Hayek on John Stuart Mill.
Philosopher Anthony McCarthy discusses gender ideology in a talk at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow.
The Washington Post reports on the indomitable Ryan T. Anderson’s fight against “same-sex marriage.” Predictably, the forces of reason and tolerance don’t want to reason with or tolerate him.
Philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin on why physics needs philosophy.
At The Stream, Catholic writer John Zmirak defends capital punishment.
At Vox, Alex Abad-Santos reports on how he attended the 29-hour Marvel movie marathon and emerged “a broken man.”
The European Conservative magazine has a website.
Some friends of this blog debate classical theism and theistic personalism. On the theistic personalist side there’s Dale Tuggy (hereand here), and on the classical theist side Bill Vallicella (here, here, and here) and Fr. Aidan Kimel (here, here, and here).
And on video: Fr. Robert Barron on Aquinas and why the New Atheists are right.
