Monday, March 16, 2026

Links of Note

 * Bryan Pickel & Brian Rabern, A Compositional Semantics for Venn Diagrams (PDF)

* Curry Kennedy, A Special Regard for Life, on rhetoric and the moral life, at "Wisdom Speaking"

* Ruth Boeker, Mary Astell on Self-Improvement, Friendship, and Religion (PDF)

* David Oks, Why ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

* Eric Snyder, Stewart Shapiro, & Richard Samuels, A strengthened argument to realism about numbers (PDF)

* Mark Windsor, Collingwood's Everday Aesthetics (PDF)

* Hollis Robbins, The Great Syllabus Stagnation, at "Anecdotal Value" and Timothy Burke, How Do Syllabi Align?, at "Eight by Seven"

* Cristina L. Wilkins, Cathrynne Henshall, Amy D. Lykins, et al., The teleonome: a framework for understanding animal welfare integrating adaptive capabilities, affective regulation, agency, and environmental affordances

* Paul Lodge, Leibniz's Justification of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Mainly) in the Correspondence with Clarke (PDF)

* Esther Berry, A Vague Feeling of Unease Will Be the Last Thing You Remember, on trusting your gut, at "The Literate Woman"

* Robin Jean Harris, Baptism as Dramatization, and Baptism as Seal and Spiritual Birth, on St. Cyril of Jerusalem's metaphors for baptism

* Lukas J. Meier, Can Thought Experiments Solve Problems of Personal Identity (PDF)

* Ronald W. Dworkin, Savage care, on the sharp limitations of bioethics for actual medical practitioners, at "Aeon"