Friday, January 10, 2025

Links of Note

 * Robin T. Bianchi, Action and Active Powers (PDF)

* Martin Butler, Essential Nature or Social Construction?, at "3 Quarks Daily"

* Emanuel Rutten, An Argument for God's Existence from Non-Bruteness (PDF)

* Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan, Aha = wow, at "Aeon", on the role of beauty in scientific inquiry

* Phil Corkum, Is Aristotle's Syllogistic a Logic? (PDF)

* Paola Gavin, The Cool, Refreshing History of Mint, at "Tablet"

* Elizabeth Lopatto, Stop using generative AI as a search engine, at "The Verge"

* Manuel Fasko, Mary Shepherd's 'Threefold Varieties of Intellect' and its role in improving education (PDF)

* Sam Carter & John Hawthorne, Normality (PDF)

* I'm currently reading up on "The Great Impostor", Ferdinand Demara; a few years back, the Independent had a nice summary of his surprisingly successful life of pretending to be other people: Ferdinand Waldo Demara: One of the greatest impostors the world has ever seen

* Mercedes Rubio, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas on the Nature of Signs (PDF)

* Charles Bolyard, Medieval Skepticism, at the SEP

* Mahesh Ananth, Aristotle and Huygens on Color and Light (PDF)

* Rosalind Chaplin, Kant's Supreme Principle of Pure Reason and the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PDF)

* George Leef, Is Higher Education Inevitably Stuck in the Past?, reviews Brian Rosenberg's, What It Is, I'm Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education.

* Stephen Travers recently had a good video at YouTube, The Understanding that Transformed My Drawing Experience and Outcomes, whose essential point I think generalizes to a wide variety of arts and skills.