Was the twentieth-century Thomist Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange unduly influenced by Leibnizian rationalism, as followers of Etienne Gilson often allege? No, argues Steven Long, over at Thomistica.net. (Be sure to read the discussion in the comments section as well as the original post.)
The debate over Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmosnever ends. Raymond Tallis reviews the book in The New Atlantis, and Jim Slagle reviews itfor Philosophy in Review.
You’ve read Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story and checked in regularly at its companion blog. Now brace yourself for Blake Bell and Michael J. Vassallo’s The Secret History of Marvel Comics, which has a blog of its own. It’s a look at the seamier, pulp magazine side of the company’s early history.
Natural law philosopher J. Budziszewski has a new website: The Underground Thomist.
At the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, Kevin Vallier offers a primer on contemporary Christian philosophy. In another post, he links to an important video clip in which F. A. Hayek comments on the relationship of his work on social justice to that of John Rawls.
The debate about Nothing is another that, it seems, nothing can stop. Tyron Goldschmidt’s edited volume The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? is reviewed over at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen has just published Eminent Hipsters. Here’s an interview about the book from the Chicago Tribune. Another interview, with Fagen and Dan co-founder Walter Becker. (Bonus link: Fagen’s top ten favorite flicks from The Criterion Collection.)
Is science self-correcting? Not to the extent people often suppose, says The Economist.
A recent book you may have missed: James Madden’s Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind; and another that is forthcoming:Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum’s Causation: A Very Short Introduction.