Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Links of Note

 * Joseph Lawler, If You Build It, Will They Come?, at "The New Atlantis", on Austin's interstate highway expansion.

* Nicholas Colgrove & Daniel Rodger, No, Pregnancy Is Not a Disease (PDF). The authors are criticizing a paper by Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen that I criticized here.

* Marij van Strien, Was physics ever deterministic? The historical basis of determinism and the image of classical physics

* Matthew Shelton, Divine Madness in Plato's Phaedrus (PDF)

* Jim Graves, The 3 Painted Churches of Hawaii, at "National Catholic Register"

* Nicholas D. Smith & Catherine McKeen, Like-Mindedness: Plato's Solution to the Problem of Faction (PDF)

* Alexej Lochmatow, Virtue as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination, at "History of Knowledge"

* Hein van den Berg, Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier (PDF)

* John Psmith reviews Einstein's Unification, by Jeroen van Donge, at "Mr. and Mrs. Psmith's Bookshelf"

* Savas L. Tsohatzidis, Speaker meaning, sentence meaning, and metaphorSpeaker meaning, sentence meaning, and metaphor (PDF)

* Nathaniel Gan, What Kind of Non-Realism is Fictionalism?