Monday, November 10, 2025

Links of Note

 * Elliot Polsky, Aquinas the Boethian: Interpreting Quod Est and Esse in Aquinas in Light of His Sources (PDF) -- an interesting argument that Aquinas is less Avicennian on the matter than usually thought; usually William of Auvergne is thought to be the closest predecessor to Aquinas on composition of essence and actual being, but Polsky argues that he's reacting against this line of thought and going back to Boethius.

* John Carlos Baez, The Inverse Cube Force Law, at "Azimuth"

* John Walsh, Kant on the Supposed Incapacity to Transgress the Moral Law Freely (PDF)

* Ben Burgis, What Marx's Comments on Aristotle and John Stuart Mill Reveal About His Critique of Political Economy, at "Philosophy for the People"

* Ruth Boeker & Evie Filea, Catharine Trotter Cockburn's and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot's contributions to Scottish philosophy (PDF)

* Jody Azzouni, Use and mention with respect to "know", "believe", "evidence", "justification", "hypothesis", and so on: A hot mess (PDF)

* Speech Acts and Fictions I: Fiction as Pretended Illocution, at "Flame & Light", on John Searle's account of fiction.

* Mikel Aickin, The Failed Experiment that Failed to Fail (PDF), on the Michelson-Morley experiment

* Aravindh Rajan and Ian McKay, There has to be a better way to make titanium, at "Orca Notes"

* Vanessa A. Seifert, The many laws in the periodic table (PDF)

* Catharine Saint-Croix, Tabletop Philosophy, at "Blog of the APA"

* Marius Stan, Kant's third law of mechanics: The long shadow of Leibniz (PDF)

* James Chastek, Disputed question on created substance, at "Just Thomism"

* Jason Turner, Ultrafilters as Propositional Theories (PDF)