Celebrated
writer-artist John Byrne delivers an old school comics last hurrah in X-Men: Elsewhen. Byrne is interviewed by
The New York Times and at
The Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, after 90 years in NYC, Marvel
Comics is moving
its headquarters to Los Angeles.
The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews philosopher Alex Byrne about academic freedom, cancellation, and recent debates about sex and gender.
Matthew
Schmitz writes an obituary for
anti-wokeness at First Things. At Skeptic,
Scott Barry Kaufman on two
types of anti-woke intellectuals.
At Boston Review, Michael Harris on the use of AI
in mathematics.
Video
of the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize Symposium on Bas van Fraassen’s philosophy of
science, with van Fraassen, Kyle Stanford, Hans Halvorson, Michela Massimi, and
James Ladyman.
At Thomistica, John Brungardt reviews
two recent books on Thomism and evolution.
Jonathan Marks
looks back
at Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein,
at The Bulwark.
Jobst
Landgrebe and Barry Smith on why reality
cannot be entirely captured by mathematics, at IAI. Landgrebe and Smith’s
book Why Machines Will Never Rule the
World is in its second edition.
At The New Criterion, Harvey Mansfield on Locke
and the American Revolution.
At YouTube,
Eric Claussen and Mark Anderson discuss Plato and Nietzsche.
Roberto de Mattei comments on the SSPX consecrations, at Rorate Caeli.
Before we invest time in reading Oderberg's article, can we get a summary of it? Is he arguing that hylomorphism serves as a "research programme" in the sense that premises about substantial form predict results that can be tested for empirically by scientists? Or is it a "research programme" for metaphysical speculation but not necessarily for experimental confirmation of an empirical claim? If the former, what research remains to be done on AT claims about formal vs material causes?
ReplyDeleteI clicked on the link and there is an abstract. The abstract gives a way better summary than I ever could.
DeleteI always loved these,
ReplyDeleteI saw Prof shared Oderberg's work on twitter, and was wondering if he would share it with his blog audience as well.
It always showed that Prof was very cultured, And someone you could sit down with and have a wide ranging conversation with apart from philosophy.
I can imagine. Prof as a teenager visiting the comic book store.
I wish we were back in 2014-18 when these were more common and Prof would respond to comments. It ocuured to me that Prof never really needed twitter to reach any kind of audiences.
In fact people from twitter would have joined the conversation with the blog.
The 2024 election discussion here at the blog , is still a highlight for me, Dr Janet Smith even praised the discourse.
Anyways have, fun devouring the links everyone !