The 10thAnnual Thomistic Seminar for graduate students in philosophy and related disciplines, sponsored by The Witherspoon Institute, will be held from August 2 - 8, 2015 in Princeton, NJ. The theme is “Aquinas and Contemporary Ethics,” and faculty include John Haldane, Sarah Broadie, and Candace Vogler. Applications are due March 16. More details here.
Does academic freedom still exist at Marquette University? The case of political science professor John McAdams, as reported by The Atlantic, Crisis magazine, and Slate.
The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus is the subject of a new biography by Randy Boyagoda. Review at National Review, and podcast of an interview with Boyagoda at Ricochet.
At Aeon magazine, Philip Ball comments on physics, philosophy, and “half-baked” ideas like the “many worlds interpretation” of quantum mechanics.
If “Bush lied, people died,” then why didn’t the Bush administration play up the WMDs it did find, so as to make the “lie” more plausible? Don’t ask Jon Stewart.
New books in philosophy of religion: Gaven Kerr’s Aquinas’s Way to God, Paul O’Grady’s Aquinas’s Philosophy of Religion, and Fiona Ellis’s God, Value, and Nature.
Christopher Blum on how Aristotle invented science.
Philosopher Tom V. Morris has written high powered academic philosophy books and many popular works. He also has a blog.
Philosopher Dennis Bonnette asks: Does Richard Dawkins exist?
But the New Atheism is old hat. Here’s philosopher Philip Kitcher’s “soft atheism.”
Thomas Ward’s new book John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism is reviewed by Robert Pasnau at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Asimov’s Foundation is reviewed at Omni Reboot. Better late than never.
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