van Inwagen thinks we can bypass these issues because the real threat to our free will is not causal determination (our acts having deterministic causes) but simply determination (our acts being necessitated by past events and the natural laws), since this is enough to guarantee that we cannot ever do otherwise. I think this is … Continue reading An Actual Sequence View of Freedom – 3:16
One right-wing bookshop is trying to normalize white supremacist anger. The Anglophone bookshop next door is having none of it. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/two-parisian-bookstores-side-by-side-are-waging-a-culture-war/2019/06/13/d234c051-a5f2-48f1-bd11-48f6bbe71677_story.html
Back in 1995, then World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin made an important prediction about the future: “The wars of the next century will be fought over water.” Thankfully, No wars have been fought strictly over water in modern history. In fact globally the number of international agreements over water far exceeds the number of … Continue reading Water scarcity, warfare, and the paradox of value | OUPblog
In “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond asks whether countries can draw lessons from how individuals confront personal difficulties. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html
Democracy and Its Discontents | by Adam Tooze | The New York Review of Books — Read on http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/democracy-and-its-discontents/
To read William Maxwell now is to be taken back into a time and place lost forever. It is an extraordinary and wonderfully surprising experience — Read on spectator.us/william-maxwell-slightly-foxed/
Historians often envisage a gulf between family history and other engagements with the past, but they can easily overlap. — Read on http://www.historytoday.com/archive/making-history/russia-love
The prescience of art: Erasmus Darwin’s poetry anticipated the theory of evolution before his grandson Charles was even born — Read on aeon.co/ideas/how-erasmus-darwins-poetry-prophesied-evolutionary-theory
If you're looking for the perfect philosophy books to take on holiday in 2019, look no further. Great beach reads, picked by philosopher Nigel Warburton. — Read on fivebooks.com/best-books/philosophy-summer-reading-2019-nigel-warburton/
Eric Hobsbawm’s Very Long Century | History Today — Read on http://www.historytoday.com/reviews/eric-hobsbawm’s-very-long-century
