Saturday, November 14, 2026

Links of Note

 * Edward Feser, The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism (PDF)

* Derk Pereboom, Kant's Transcendental Arguments, at the SEP

* Mind of the Church is a website providing translations of various works of theology.

* Porphyrian Trees of virtues in St. Thomas's Summa (the navigation seems a bit wonky at times, but you can search for a virtue and then 'Find in Tree') -- Tim Pawl discusses the project here.

* Michael, Ascent to the Meaning of Being, on St. Edith Stein's argument for God's existence, at "The Summa Wayfarer"

* Ray Imgrund, Dante, Lewis, and a Fairy Tale about Overcoming Despair, on Over the Garden Wall, at "Harmony of the Heavens"

* Ham Calculus has an interesting set of tutorials on Lambda Calculus and Term Functor Logic.

* Divyavacana, Divine Simplicity in the Dvaita Vedanta Tradition

* Peirce Concordance at the Lyceum Institute

* Gyongyi Hegedus, Saadya, at the SEP

* Tyler Jagt, My Students Can't Read, at "The Review"

* Researchers have recently been using AI to decipher Kurt Godel's notebooks (which were mostly written in a now-very-rare form of shorthand notation).

* Brad Skow, Fan Service, Easter Eggs, at "Mostly Aesthetics" -- I think one very simple but important difference is that fan service is deliberately made to be obvious, whereas easter eggs are, as their name suggests, deliberately made to be partly hidden, so that they can be discovered.

* Francis Young reviews Sarah Clegg's Perilous Enchantment

* Nancy French, I Was Taught to Read Using an Alphabet that No Longer Exists, on the here-then-gone i/t/a attempt to reform reading education, at "Pardon My French"

* Cordithicus, Manuscript Art of St. Thomas Aquinas in the 15th Century


I had hoped to have the fortnightly book done, but, embarrassingly, I completely misplaced the book for nearly a week, and have been mostly catching up on other things since, so it will have to be next week.