Here's an excellent page-turner. I've been reading it for 2 hours, and I can't put it down. It's Peter Harrison's Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age.

Delighted to be giving a public lecture in Cambridge, MA next week ((Thursday, August 29, 5:30 PM) on the some of the topics in my new book. Harvard Catholic Forum harvardcatholicforum.org/naturalism-vs-…

Visited beautiful Thun yesterday.

This is relevant for #DECRA applicants trying to understand their "scores" in RMS👇 It's very common to get As/Bs from your Detailed Assessors but Cs/Ds/Es from the General Assessors. The thread explains why. x.com/ARC_Tracker/st…

Bachalpsee, Grindlewald

There is a lot of good work being done today in history of philosophy, and in metaphysics that is informed by that history. Indeed, we're seeing something of a renaissance in these areas. This pair of excellent anthologies gives a taste.

Malloy Owen reviews Jason Blakely’s Lost in Ideology and considers how ideology functions like a map, providing a simplified but compelling picture of the world. But sometimes, instead of giving an interpretation of reality, it can serve as a substitute. hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-var…

Detail from the Chagall windows in Fraumünster, Zurich. Jacob wrestling with the angel; an angel announces the beginning of the new age.

Interesting graphic, esp. the difference between mean and median measures.

“Rationalizing risk aversion in science: Why incentives to work hard clash with incentives to take risks.” journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

On Stebbing's Ideas for Moral Philosophy. open.substack.com/pub/digression…

I’ll be teaching an advanced Seminar (PhD candidates and up or the equivalent) on this in a few weeks. It’ll be a 3 week text seminar, reading the entire book word by word, line by line, in the original. 3 spots are open, by application, proof of German reading skill. Members

My excellent Conversation with Philip Ball marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Chicago sunset

And again, Aristotle's revenge continues apace academic.oup.com/biolinnean/art…

It is deeply frustrating that multiple Australian unis are seeking to end lectures across the board, regardless of the pedagogical needs of specific disciplines or units. There is a LOT to be said for the active listening skills and cognitive engagement that lectures cultivate

Wendy Brown’s preface to the new translation of Marx’s Capital: 'The Enduring Influence of Marx’s Masterpiece' thenation.com/article/archiv…

Giovanni de Paolo, Creation and Expulsion from the Garden. Met, NYC,

"We live, I often think, in the golden age of popular history. You don’t have to settle for empty calories." thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Some great pieces in this latest issue of Marginalia.