* A fascinating discussion of the history of the principle of double effect: Reevaluating the Historical Evolution of Double Effect by Eric Rovie
* Macht discusses a misinterpretation of Aquinas on faith. The background question to the discussion is: Does Aquinas, in his discussion on the faith of demons, commit himself to saying that believing without any good evidence is more to be praised than believing on evidence?
* The SEP has an article on African Sage Philosophy (HT: prosthesis). I have previously argued that worked done in this area should be of particular interest to Christians in philosophy.
* Simplicity links: Robert Skipper has an interesting post on parsimony in science; which should be read with the recent discussion of simplicity at Certain Doubts; and with Michael Huemer's discussion of appeals to parsimony in philosophy (PDF; there is a discussion of it here) and Kevin Kelly's discussions of appeals to it in science (PDF) and of Ockham's Razor (PDF).
* The Philosophy Carnival is up at Hesperus/Phosphorus.
* At Thirdspace there's a very cool article on academic research and blogging by blogger Natalie Bennett: Resurrecting our Foremothers: My Hopes as a Biographer, Journalist, and Blogger.
* The ninth Poetry Carnival will be at "Philosophical Poetry"; the theme is Dissent. Entries are due Feb. 26.
* UPDATE: At "Sexless in the City" Anna Broadway has two lovely posts on world-renouncing vs. world-embracing: Sex and death, part I; Sex and death, part II. See also her recent Godspy essay.
