Sunday, March 10, 2024

Links of Note

 * Helen De Cruz, Curtain tune for academic philosophy, at "Wondering Freely"

* Andrew Chignell, Kant, Modality, and the Most Real Being (PDF)

* Michael Strand, Why We Don't Believe in Free Will, at "Front Porch Republic"

* José David García Cruz, A Modal Logic to Reason about Analogical Proportion (PDF)

* Kieran Setiya, Josiah Carberry Day, at "Under the Net"

* Gary Hatfield, The history of philosophy as philosophy (PDF)

* Andrew Klavan, Words, Words, Words, at "The New Jerusalem"

* Sebastian Gäb, Mystical Ineffability (PDF)

* Paul Krause, The Augustinian Imperative: Saint Augustine and the Discovery of the Self, at "Discourses on Minerva"

* Joel Katzav, Revisiting Grace de Laguna's critiques of analytic philosophy and of pragmatism (PDF)

* Jamie Boulding, Intellectual Friendship: Why It Matters, at "Public Discourse"

* Maité Cruz, Shepherd's Case for the Demonstrability of Causal Principles.  This is interesting, although I'm skeptical of the idea that Shepherd herself takes substance-accident metaphysics to be a central concern. But I also don't think Fantl's objection a serious problem for Shepherd (it's based on an assumption about beginning to exist, that it is entirely in terms of existence and nonexistence at times, which I think Shepherd would regard as obviously absurd and, even if not, irrelevant to the cases she is explicitly considering, and I think she would be correct if she did so regard it), so I don't think it makes sense to take response to it as central to interpretation of her argument. Nonetheless I think the substance-accident approach is a viable one in itself and that Shepherd perhaps could have taken it.

* Troy Wellington Smith, From Enthusiasm to Irony: Kierkegaard's Reception of Norse Mythology and Literature (PDF) 

* Helen Rauner, Dust to Dust, on W. H. Auden, at "Commonweal"

* Eric Solis, Curable and Incurable Vice in Aristotle (PDF)

* Laura K. Field, Liberal morality needs liberal mythology, at "hypertext"