Friday, April 17, 2026

Caught in the web

At The Telegraph, John Haldane remembers the late Dominican theologian Fr. Fergus Kerr.

At UnHerd, Sohrab Ahmari has had enough with Donald Trump’s “mad king” governing style, and sides with Pope Leo in his feud with the president.

James Franklin’s new book The Necessities Underlying Reality: Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability is available by Open Access.

American Songwriter reports that Donald Fagen has retired from touring with Steely Dan.  More details at Vulture.

At his Substack, Edward Pentin interviews Peter Kwasniewski about the new book The Disastrous Pontificate: Pope Francis’ Rupture from the Magisterium by Dominic Grigio.

Gene Callahan interviews Philip Pilkington about his book The Collapse of Global Liberalism, at Modern Age.

Philosopher Susan Haack died last month.  Obituary at the University of Miami website.

Luke Foster reviews Pierre Manent’s Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference, at Public Discourse.

At his blog, Daniel Shields replies to Fr. James Dominic Rooney’s review of his fine book Nature and Nature’s God.  (Shields replied to my own review in an earlier post.)

Two new open access articles on hylomorphism and quantum physics from physicist and philosopher William M. R. Simpson: Don’t Squint: Quantum Hylomorphism Can Solve Albert’s Macro-Object Problem, in Topoi; and Contextual Bohmian Quantum Field Theories: A Hylomorphic Approach to QFT, in Foundations of Physics.

Lorraine Daston on Albert O. Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests, at Public Books.

CBR on six changes the Apple TV+ adaptation made to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation.

At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Corey Barnes reviews Richard Cross’s Early Scholastic Christology 1050-1250.

At his blog, Colin McGinn argues that Jerry Fodor was the most influential of recent philosophers.  He also offers some frank remarks about various eminent philosophers (and later responds to critics of those remarks).

Matt McManus on the late Jürgen Habermas, at Jacobin.

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