Sunday, October 20, 2024

Links of Note

 * Paul R. DeHart, Social Contract Theory in the Ruins?, at "Public Discourse"

* Thomas Byrne, Husserl's Phenomenology of Wishing (PDF)

* Elisa Gabbert, The Essay as Realm, at "Georgia Review"

* Hein van den Berg and Boris Demarest, Induction and certainty in the physics of Wolff and Crusius (PDF)

* Alisa Ruddell, Gendered Worlds: Our Need for Belonging and Usefulness, at "Front Porch Republic"

* Dennis Whitcomb & Jared Millson, Inquiring Attitudes and Erotetic Logic: Norms of Restriction and Expansion (PDF)

* John Hartley, Forget Turing, It's the Tolkien Test for AI that Matters, at "3 Quarks Daily"

* Beatriz de Almedia Rodrigues, The Ofences of the Imagination: The Grotesque in Kant's Aesthetics (PDF)

* Stuart Halpen, The Fantastic Four, on the rich symbolism of the 'four species' used in the Jewish feast of Sukkot, at "Tablet"

* Daryl Close, Why Student Ratings of Faculty are Unethical (PDF) -- despite the title, the paper is making an argument specifically about how college administrators typically use student evaluations, not an argument for the claim that there is no role for student input into faculty teaching quality.

* Bikash K. Bhattacharyah, The script creator, on the religion of Laipianism, at "Aeon"