December philosophy links

Putnam says Husserl got the gist of 'twin earth' in 1911.

Alva Noë on colour as well as Evan Thompson and Stephen Batchelor's new book.

Ivan Ilyin, Putin's philosopher.

'Marcuse Today -- Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man is more prescient than its author could have imagined' by Ronald Aronson.

'Ernst Cassirer on Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Part 1)'.

From last November, Amartya Sen: 'Social Choice and Social Welfare'.

'Anne Jaap Jacobson on Mind and Representation'.

From the Abstract for a law paper of philosophical interest: 'The article discusses how negligence doctrine has long distinguished misfeasance (a “misdoing”) from nonfeasance (a “not doing”), purporting to provide that the former occasions liability and the latter does not.'

A new book called Huxley’s Church & Maxwell’s Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science.

Hugh Gough's review of Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 by Jennifer Powell McNutt.

'Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity'.

Alan Montefiore's review of Rowan Williams' The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language.

Rowan Williams on some recent books about fairy tales.

A 1996 list of movies with philosophical content (to which yours truly contributed).

At Philosophy Bites, Julia Annas on virtue ethics and Hugh Mellor on probability.

Philosophy bits

A new biography of R. G. Collingwood (pictured) is reviewed here & here; and this article on Collingwood by Dale Jacquette is -- for now -- available

The Archbishop of Canterbury on Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Boyd Tonkin on the same book

Michael Walzer interviewed in the Tehran Times (ht Pol Theory)

Amitai Etzioni's review of Michael Sandel's book

David Rieff holds forth on Bernard Williams & Martha Nussbaum

Robert Pippin on how to make sense of people

Alan Saunders interviews Elliot Sober on arguments from design
('intelligent design')

Philosophy Bites interviews Ned Block on consciousness

The WSJ on Leibniz and this, the best of all possible worlds, a view that was pilloried by Voltaire, about whom there's a new biography (also reviewed here), and whose Candide inspired the Random House logo

A review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex

The latest on the James Dean of philosophy: Peter Beaumont on why Camus still divides opinion in Algeria; and Justin Clemens and Jamie Bollenbacher review Robert Zaretsky's new book on Camus' life