Busy week and a half coming up, but I’d never leave you without something to read.
Nautilus recounts the debate between Bergson and Einstein about the nature of time.
Preach it. At Aeon, psychologist Robert Epstein argues that the brain is not a computer.
A new Philip K. Dick television anthology series is planned. In the meantime, gear up for season 2 of The Man in the High Castle.
John Haldane has been busy in Australia: a lecture on sex, a lecture on barbarism, a Q and A, and an essay on transgenderism and free speech. Full report from The Catholic Weekly.
New books for Thomists: Eleonore Stump, The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers;Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary; and William Jaworski, Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind: How Hylomorphism Solves the Mind-Body Problem.
The Weekly Standardon art critic Robert Hughes.
Tim Crane on the life and character of Wittgenstein, at the The Times Literary Supplement.
John Searle on perception: Interview at The Partially Examined Life.
Mariska Leunissen’s edited volume Aristotle’s Physics: A Critical Guide is reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
At OUPblog, William Jaworski on Aristotle and Hilary Putnam.
Has Aristotle’s tomb been found?
Also at Aeon, Elliott Sober asks: Why should we accept Ockham’s Razor?
The Scholasticum is a new post-graduate institute for the study of Scholastic theology and philosophy.
Some more new books: Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ; Matthew Levering, Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth;and Jim Slagle, The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat.
An interview with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield about students today.
The other footnote drops. At First Things, philosopher Michael Pakaluk on Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
The University Bookmanon C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.
Philosopher and psychologist Daniel Robinson is interviewed at 3:AM Magazine.