Monday, September 01, 2025

Links of Note

 * Elisabeth Camp, Metaphor in the Mind: The Cognition of Metaphor (PDF)

* Michael Arsenault, Aristotle on Misperceiving

* Pauline Kleingeld, Kant's Analytic Method and the Argument of Groundwork I (PDF)

* Susan Pickard, Sex is Not a Spectrum, on Beauvoir's account of sex, at "Beauvoirian Feminism"

* Sarale Ben-Asher, Poetic Imitation: The Argument of Republic 10 (PDF)

* Connor Tabarrok, Floodplains, FEMA, and Financial Analysis, at "Of All Trades"

* Paniel Reyes Cardenas, Term Functor Logic Tableaux

* John Plaice, Leibniz's Teleology is the Basis for the Principle of Least Action, at "Fiat Lux"

* Ian J. Campbell, Rational Powers and Knowledge of Counterparts in Aristotle (PDF)

* Adam Louis-Klein, The Holiest Hatred, on our contemporary rise of anti-semitism, at "Tablet"

* Emily Herring, Laughter is vital, on Bergson's account of laughter, at "Aeon"

* David Weinberger, We Are More Than We Think, reviews Edward Feser's Immortal Souls, at "Religion & Liberty"

* Vanessa de Harven, The Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Hellenistic Period (PDF)

* Nicolas Sarzeaud, A New Document on the Appearance of the Shroud of Turin from Nicole Oresme: Fighting False Relics and False Rumours in the Fourteenth Century. As the title suggests, a discussion by Oresme in the previously unpublished Problemata considers in passing the question of the Shroud as an example of religious fraud, and is the earliest skeptical mention (although we have indirect evidence that it was not an uncommon view at the time, and the cautious Holy See a bit later strictly required that it be displayed not as the actual relic but as a 'figure and representation' of the shroud of Christ). The mention is mostly unremarkable, except for historical interest, but Sarzeaud does a good job of discussing how these matters were approached in the fourteenth century.

* Typepad is completely shutting down. As the first of the major blogging platforms to fall, it seems like the end of an era. Part of the reason is due to broader business issues, so Wordpress and Blogger, which do not have the same problems, are likely to stand a while yet. (Indeed, while it's always difficult to guess how Google will go, I suspect the rise of LLMs has accidentally expanded Blogger's life, in the sense that Google has an additional incentive to keep it around a while yet, as a still-slowly-expanding mass of human text which Google can use for training.) But at some point the end will come for us all.

* Edward Feser, Maimonides on negative theology

* Christopher Pincock, Reichenbach, Russell, and scientific realism (PDF)

* Lance H. Gray, A Philosophy of Scarecrows