Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Links of Note

 * Christopher P. Miller, Contra-Bartholet: Rights of Children vs. Rights of the State

* Paul Symington, Powerful Logic: Prime Matter as Principle of Individuation and Pure Potency (PDF)

* Giorgio Lando, Metaphysical Modality, without Possible Worlds (PDF)

* Matilda Gibbons, Andrew Crump, MeghanBarrett, Sajedeh Sarlak, Jonathan Birch, Lars Chittka, Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence

* Michelle Mason, Moral prejudice and aesthetic deformity: Rereading Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" (PDF)

* Uriah Kriegel, The Poetic as an Aesthetic Category (PDF)

* Brian Kemple, Re-Thinking Education

* Nabeel Hamid, Physicotheology in Kant's Transition from Nature to Freedom (PDF)

* Levi Durham, Beauty as a Guide to Truth: Aquinas, Fittingness, and Explanatory Virtues (PDF)

* Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, The Contradictions of Adam Smith, interviews Glory Liu on her recent book about Adam Smith; contrary to what one might expect from the title, the interview is really about how contradictions attributed to Smith are often artifacts of assumptions made by interpreters.

* Elena Comay del Junco, Aristotle on Comparison (PDF)

* Peter Totleben, The Palamite Controversy: A Thomistic Analysis (scroll down)

*  Roosevelt Montás, Anika Prather, Aeon J. Skoble, and Jennifer A. Frey, Why Read the Ancients Today?

* Joshua Kelsall, 'Trusting-to' and 'Trusting-as': A qualitative account of trustworthiness (PDF)