Feedspot has released its list of the Top 15 Christian Philosophy Blogs and Websites. This blog is ranked at #1. Thank you, Feedspot!
At Public Discourse, Fr. Nicanor Austriaco responds to Fr. Michael Chaberek’s book on Thomism and evolution.
At First Things, Matthew Rose on Christianity and the alt-right.
Philosophers Jonathan Ellis and Eric Schwitzgebel argue that philosophers are as prone to post-hoc rationalization as anyone else.
Bishop Robert Barron and William Lane Craig each comment on their recent exchange at Claremont McKenna College. Brian Huffling of Southern Evangelical Seminary comments on Craig’s critique of divine simplicity.
Also at Public Discourse, Matthew Franck reviews Ryan Anderson’s new book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Anderson offers a précis of the book.
The Times Literary Supplement on the religion of Isaac Newton.
Comics writer Mark Millar on why Marvel movies work and DC movies don’t. Kevin Feige notes that, even if the deal with Fox goes through, not all of Marvel’s characters will have “come home” to the company.
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jerry Walls reviewsAdrian Reimers’ bookHell and the Mercy of God.
Philosopher Christopher Kaczor critiques a recent defense of abortion, at Public Discourse.
Gil Sanders develops an Aristotelian approach to quantum mechanics.
In Los Angeles, the Thomistic Institute recently hosted a lecture by John Haldane on the theme “Darkness in the City of Angels: Evil as a Theme and Vice as a Fact.” You can listen to it via Soundcloud.
Eyjólfur Emilsson’s new book on Plotinus is reviewed by Luc Brisson at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Catholic University of America philosopher John Rist challenges Cardinal Cupich and judges Pope Francis to be “possibly the worst pope we have ever had.” At First Things, Cardinal Müller on “paradigm shifts” and the development of doctrine. At the Catholic Herald, Damian Thompson looks back on Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation.
At the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, philosopher Christopher Brown critiques scientism.
National Reviewreally likes, doesn’t like, and sort of likesBlack Panther.
Stephen L. Talbott on evolution and the purposes of life, at The New Atlantis.
Speaking of paradigm shifts: the Times Literary Supplement on Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy of science.
Alex Rosenberg is interviewed at What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
At The Catholic Thing, philosopher Michael Pakaluk on contraception and intrinsically evil acts.
Michael Ruse’s Darwinism as Religion is reviewed at the Los Angeles Review of Books.