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This is important --The move away from mechanism in the late 18th and 19th centuries was not a rejection of experiment, but rather an embrace of experimentation while broadening the notion of what a theory of nature can be.

WORKSHOP: DFG-RESEARCH NETWORK ON CLASSICAL GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGIES. 3RD WORKSHOP. “THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF BIOLOGICAL LIFE” (BOCHUM, 30-31 JANUARY 2025) hegelpd.it/hegel/workshop… Hegel For Hegelians Hegel Society GB Australian Hegel Society Hegel en perspectiva G.W.F HEGEL North American Kant Society Warwick Post-Kantian Philosophy Centre

This beautiful essay (/book reviews) captures what it's like to grow up evangelical and its lasting impact.

So many adults tell me that this is not just about kids; the phone-based adulthood is driving many of us crazy. At Afterbabel.com today, Author, speaker, founder of Screen/Life Balance offers advice to adults on how to create healthier relationships with their phones: afterbabel.com/p/the-phone-ba…

Here I wade into some recent literature on natalism, touching on books by Tim Carney Anastasia Berg Rachel Wiseman Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

"Children disrupt everything, even if all goes smoothly. But perhaps for just that reason, they remind us that life is not a project in maximizing enjoyment and avoiding hardship. It is not an experience to be curated, but a pursuit of the good, requiring vulnerability, courage,

"The fear of the immigrant has, at its heart, the same structure as this fear of the child." Naomi Fisher on how we came to see children as a burden–and how to stop: commonwealmagazine.org/little-life-ru…

Grateful to Anastasia and Rachel for their book and some productive exchanges this past fall---it compelled me to articulate my own thinking/differences on this issue. That's the best kind of book.

"I think it's better to have my lyre or a chorus that I might lead out of tune and dissonant, and have the vast majority of men disagree with me and contradict me, than to be out of harmony with myself, to contradict myself, though I'm only one person" -Socrates, Gorgias ♥️

"[The left] should work to develop an ambitious vibe-free pro-worker agenda that makes it clear that it’s not voters’ perceptions that need to be managed but their reality that needs to be improved." Good stuff from Alex Stern .

The White House "Fertility care" is a euphemism for designer, disposable, and donated (to research) lab-made babies. #BigFertility likely destroys 4x more embryonic life annually than #PlannedParenthood. This is an anti-child executive order.

Plato's top twelve in ranked order, just for fun, since it's been a topic of some debate in our house: 1. Republic 2. Phaedrus 3. Gorgias 4. Symposium 5. Statesman 6. Sophist 7. Meno 8. Timaeus-Critias 9. Parmenides 10. Theaetetus 11. Philebus 12. Apology

Join us for our March events! 3/15: Pope Francis & Caring For Our Common Home Today 3/20: Bronwen McShea, Ph.D. will present "Is Catholicism's 'Woman Problem' a History Problem?" 3/30&31: The Pleasures of Pseudepigraphy Conference luc.edu/ccih Loyola University, College of Arts and Sciences Loyola University Chicago

David Solomon had a huge positive impact on my life and the lives of so many others. His is a model of a life well lived. RIP, David.

How are we yearning for meaning in a disenchanted age? Here are highlights from our McGill symposium with Charles Taylor, Tara Isabella Burton, Galen Watts, Naomi Fisher, Rob Gilbert & Bill Barbieri. Thanks to @sarey for producing the video and John Templeton Foundation for sponsorship

In his first address to the College of Cardinals, Pope Leo XIV says that he wants the Church to "respond to a new industrial revolution and to the development of artificial intelligence." vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

Lara Ostaric's _The Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant’s Critical System_ is an impressive, ambitious book, tackling the question of the unity of Kant's Critical philosophy. It's an important book, my review of it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I think this whole passage from Leo XIV's address to the Eastern Churches today is worth reading. In my estimation, it compellingly links the liturgy (and the need for mystery and "the primacy of God") WITH charity and works of mercy (working for peace, etc). The 2 are connected

Fantastic article from Bronwen McShea about how women have always been movers and shakers in Church history, despite dominant narratives (from left and right alike) that women have always had diminished, merely private roles.

This is a wonderful tribute.