* Ruth Boeker, Hutcheson and His Critics and Opponents on the Moral Sense (PDF)
* John Haldane, Remembering Nicholas Rescher, a Gentle Giant, at "First Things"
* Alex Worsnip, What is incoherence?, at "Aeon", on the question of whether we can hold contradictory beliefs at the same time
* José Eduardo Porcher & Daniel De Luca-Noronha, Awe at Natural Beauty as a Religious Experience (PDF)
* Brian Cutter, The Many-Subjects Argument against Physicalism (PDF)
* Rowan Mellor & Margaret Shea, What Are We to Do? Making Sense of 'Joint Ought' Talk (PDF)
* "Tea with Tolkien" collects the current rumors and speculations about season 2 of The Rings of Power.
* Katy Carl reviews Flannery O'Connor's unfinished work, Why Do the Heathen Rage?, at "Current"
* Caspar Jacobs, In Defence of Dimensions (PDF)
* David L. Barack, What Is Foraging? (PDF)
* Lorris Chevalier, Five Warrior Bishops in the Middle Ages, at "Medievalists.net"
* At "Imperfect Cognitions", Alexandre Billon summarizes his paper "The Sense of Existence", which I've linked here before.
* Andrew Aberdein, Virtues Suffice for Argument Evaluation (PDF)
* Inna Kupreeva, Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Noncontradiction (PDF)
* R. A. Schuetz covers a story out of Houston that I find rather heartening. Houston passed an ordinance last year to ticket and fine people handing out free food to the homeless outside the Central Library. As you might expect, there have been complaints that it discourages families from visiting the library, but (I think significant in this case), this is a practice that goes back at least twenty years. The primary volunteers doing this are with a rather informal group that goes by the name 'Food Not Bombs'. The volunteers began to be ticketed under the new ordinance -- over ninety tickets with fines amounting to over $20,000. However, the city has hit a wall with regard to its attempt to enforce the ordinance -- despite all the tickets, the city has not been able to convict anyone for violating the ordinance. It has had difficulty even impaneling a jury -- it can't find enough people in jury pools to make a trial possible. At times, it has had to dismiss all potential jurors because all of them when asked would say either that they already don't believe the group is violating any ordinance or would say that, even if the group was guilty that they would not be willing to fine them for giving people food. Apparently the only instance in which the city was able to get it to trial and verdict, the jury heard all the evidence for the ordinance violation and voted that no ordinance was violated; despite the fact that the ordinance was specifically passed to prohibit groups like Food Not Bombs from engaging in this practice, the city seems to have had difficulty convincing impartial jurors that it made any sense to interpret any city ordinance as prohibiting the giving of food to people who actually need it.
Whatever one thinks of the ordinance itself, this is a good solid example of the role and power of citizens in actual governance, and an example of the utter importance of juries. (My own view of the ordinance is that cities cannot in justice prohibit citizens from doing ordinary good to other citizens, and if the location is causing problems, the city should be supplying an alternate location that would be acceptable to people in general.)
