This page is a collection of resources that I come across about various topics, some of which I’ll have written about on this blog. The resources under each section are roughly ordered by how they should be read (in terms of what the reader will understand). In some places, the ramp-up might be a bit too much. I plan on filling these gaps with blog posts. Everything linked is freely available online. Those that appear but aren’t linked are implicitly recommended by me.

Contents

• Ethics
• Politics
• Hylomorphic dualism
• Hylomorphism in general
• Divine Simplicity
• Analogy
• Philosophical Anthropology
• Metaphysics
• Aesthetics
• Thomism in general
• Liberalism
• Modern Thought
• Religion
• Contemporary Objections to Religion
• Suffering and Divine Hiddenness
• Divine action
• Creation and evolution
• Time and Eternity
• Atonement
• Women in ministry
• Other biblical theology
• Others that I can’t place just yet

Ethics

• From morality to nature and back again by me (talk)
• The invention of “the meaning of life”, The emergence of “the meaning of life”, What “the meaning of life” replaced, Assessing the difference between meaning and purpose, and The meaning of life and the crisis of reason by Joshua Hochschild (blogpost series)
• How Aristotle starts the Nicomachean Ethics by me (blogpost)
• Aristotle and the egoist worry (part 1, part 2) by me (blogposts)
• Natural and moral goodness and The good of others by me (blogposts)
• Goods, basic goods, and faculties by me (blogpost)
• Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Private Property by Edward Feser (web article)
• Varieties of Value Incommensurability and Incomparability by Rob Koons (paper)
• Why Aquinas? (part 1, part 2) Jennifer Frey (blogpost series)
• Whose Nature? Which Law? by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• The Arrow, the Archer, and the Target by J. Budziszewski (blogpost)
• The Content and Structure of the Good by David Oderberg (paper)
• The Metaphysics of Privation by David Oderberg (paper)
• The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law by David Oderberg (paper)
• Does morality depend on God? by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Natural law or supernatural law? by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Natural Thomists by J. Budziszewski (blogpost)
• A Dialogue on Natural Law (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10) by J. Budziszewski (blogpost series)
• The Same as to Knowledge (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14) by J. Budziszewski (blogpost series)
• Natural Law and Original Sin (part 1, part 2, part 3) by J. Budziszewski (blogpost series)
• Cardinal virtues and counterfeit virtues by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• The Good, the Highest Good, and the Common Good by Edmund Waldstein (article)
• Defending the New Natural Law’s Incommensurability Thesis by Alfredo Watkins (blogpost)
• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VIII and Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics IX by Brandon (blogpost)
• An historical overview of natural law theory from Budziszewski by me (blogpost)
• The Doctrine of Double Effect by David Oderberg (paper)
• Is it wrong to lie to HAL?, There is no Santa clause, The murderer at the door, What counts as a lie? by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• The Shopkeeper’s Dilemma and Cooperation with Evil by Robert Miller (article)
• Love and Sex roundup by Edward Feser (blogpost roundup)
• Natural Law & Natural Revelation by J. Budziszewski (interview)
• Peter Kalkavage on Hegel’s Anti-Aristotelian Account of Desire by Edmund Waldstein (blogpost)

Politics

• What Does it Mean to be a ‘Political Animal’?, Moral Absolutes and the Humpty Dumpty Fallacy, Who’s Afraid of Metaphysics? by Matthew O’Brien and Robert C Koons (articles)
• Substantial and aggregate activities, Virtual existence, Common Goods by me (blogposts)
• That orders regulate by me (blogpost)
• Natural Law and Rights Theory by David Oderberg (paper)
• Justice and right by James Chastek (blogpost)
• A Brief Introduction to the Concept of Right by E Milco (article)
• Two answers to “why do we form political associations?” by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Political common goods are of a fixed size by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Two Libertarianisms by J. Budziszewski (Q&A)
• Meyer and fusionism by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Logos and Leviathan: Leonine Perspectives on Democracy by The Josias (article)
• Should We Have a Confessional State? by J. Budziszewski (Q&A)
• The Politics of Nostalgia by Edmund Waldstein (video talk and manuscript)
• A Critique of John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration (part 1, part 2) by Derek Remus (article series)
• Locke’s Doctrine of Toleration: A Contract with Nothingness (part 1, part 2, part 3) by Jeffery Bond (article series)
• The Foundations of Christian Ethics and Social Order (part 1, part 2) by Peter Kwasniewski (article series)
• Understanding Aristotle’s Account of the Relationship of the Household to the State (part 1, part 2) by Beatrice Freccia (article series)
• Pascal on Beatitude as a Common Good by Edmund Waldstein (blogpost)
• Dubium: When Is Any Government “Legitimate”? by Felix de St. Vincent (article)
• On the homogeneity of measures by me (blogpost)
• A Note on the Legitimacy of Governments by D Lendman (article)
• Dissolving the Concept of Political Legitimacy by E Milco (article)
• The Common Good by Manuel Velasquex (article)
• Plato meets Huxley by Michael Flynn (blogpost)

Hylomorphic dualism

• Rediscovering Human Beings (part 1 and part 2) by Edward Feser (blogposts)
• In Psearch of Psyche (introduction, part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4) by Michael Flynn (blogpost series)
• Think, McFly, think! by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• The empty brain by Robert Epstein (article)
• Progressive dematerialization by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Da Ya Think I’m Sphexy? by Edward Feser (blgopost)
• Mind-body problem roundup by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Animals are conscious! In other news, sky is blue, water wet by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Augustine on the immateriality of the mind by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Searle, Aquinas, and property dualism by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Coffee and the Separated Soul by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Hylemorphic Dualism by David Oderberg (paper)
• Understanding Persons: Materialism, Idealism, or…? by John Haldane (video discussion)
• The Immaterial Aspects of Thought by James Ross (paper)
• Concepts, Dualism, and The Human Intellect by David Oderberg (paper)
• Rosenberg roundup by Edward Feser (blogpost series)
• Post-intentional depression and Feynman’s painter and eliminative materialism by Edward Feser (blogposts)
• Bühler? Bühler? by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought by Edward Feser (paper)
• The Last Superstition (ch. 4) by Edward Feser (chapter)
• Aquinas (ch. 4) by Edward Feser (chapter)

Hylomorphism in general

• Smith’s epistemological argument for hylomorphism by me (blogpost)
• Is Form Structure? by David Oderberg (paper)
• Stalwart vs Faint-Hearted Hylomorphism by Rob Koons (paper)
• The Whole is Prior to its Parts by Rob Koons (paper)
• Hylomorphism and Individuation by David Oderberg (paper)
• The Generation of Substantial Form by Pater Edmund (blogpost)
• On the Nature of Causality in Complex Systems by George Ellis (talk)
• Ontological Escalation by Rob Koons (paper)
• What’s the Matter With Matter by Michael Flynn (blogpost)
• Knowing individuals by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Aquinas and Realism by John Haldane (talk)
• Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas by Eleonore Stump (video explanation)
• How Thomistic Realism Refutes Radical Skepticism by Mario Derksen (article)
• God and Abstract Objects by William Lange Craig, Peter van Inwagen, and JT Bridges (debate/discussion)
• Essence and Properties by David Oderberg (paper)
• The logic of the Problem of Universals by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Abstraction of form by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Scholastic Metaphysics (ch. 3) by Edward Feser (chapter)

Divine Simplicity

• William Lane Craig on divine simplicity by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Classical theism roundup by Edward Feser (blogposts)
• Theistic Personalism and the Erosion of Classical Christian Theism by James Dolezal (video talk)
• On Three Problems of Divine Simplicity by Alexander Pruss (talk transript)
• Divine simplicity and the bootstrapping objection by me (blogpost)
• Olson contra classical theism by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Violations of Remotion (part 1 and part 2) by Brandon (blogposts)
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster and God by Robert Barron (video)
• The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers by Eleonore Stump (video talk)

Analogy

• A definition and division of analogy by James Chastek (blogpost)
• The analogy of being and primary and secondary causes by James Chastek (blogpost)
• The controversy over existence as analogous between creation and creator by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Some Jottings on Analogy and Via Triplex in Philosophical and Theological Lights by Brandon (blogpost)
• The Scotus Story by Peter J. Leithart (article)
• Do Aquinas and Scotus disagree on univocal predication of God? by Alexander Pruss (blogpost)
• Analogy at the foundations of mathematics and Uninstantiatables in Aristotelian Mathematics by me (blogpost)

Philosophical Anthropology

• The structure of freedom by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Accounting for yourself by Roger Scruton (video talk)
• Neuro-philosophical account of addiction by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Three Perspectives on Human Life by John Haldane (video talk)
• The Metaphysics of Gender: A Thomistic Approach by John Finley (video talk)
• Sex Identity and Gender Identity by Christopher Tollefsen (articles)

Metaphysics

• Causation is Not Your Enemy by Stephen Mumford and Rani Anjum (paper)
• Aristotle’s four causes versus pantheism by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Transcendence by James Chastek (blogpost)
• St. Thomas and transcendence by James Chastek (essay)
• Underdetermination by Michael Flynn (blogpost)
• A is A by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Adding existence to something by James Chastek (blogpost)

Aesthetics

• What pleases when seen by James Chastek (blogpost)
• The Metaphysical Analysis of the Beautiful and the Ugly by Robert McCall (paper)
• Joyce on Aquinas and Aesthetics by Paul Corio (blogpost)
• Beauty’s light into other transcendentals by James Chastek (blogpost)
• The metaphysics and aesthetics of plastic by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Postscript on plastic by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Teenagers, beauty, and subjectivity by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Beauty or sublimity and ecstacy by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Why Beauty Matters by Roger Scruton (documentary)

Thomism in general

• The Thomistic Tradition (part 1 and part 2) by Edward Feser (blogposts/book chapters)
• The 24 Thomistic Theses (webpage)
• St. Thomas’s Works in English by Joseph Kenny (webpage)
• The Scholastic Philosophical Tradition by Gaven Kerr (video talk)
• The Rise and Fall of the Thomistic Renewal (part 1, part 2) by D.Q. McInerny (essay series)
• Thomism and neomodernism by John Lamont (essay)
• The Aquinas Review archives by Thomas Aquinas College (journal archives)

Liberalism

• The Limits of Consent by Timothy Hsiao (article)
• Self-ownership, Libertarianism, and Impartiality by Edward Feser (unpublished paper)
• Love, sex, and marriage in liberal societies by John Haldane (video talk)
• The road from libertarianism by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Liberal neutrality update by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• The evolution of liberalism (and ) by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Out of Self-Control and into Outer-Control by Deogowulf (blogpost)
• Nudge nudge, wink wink by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Should We Have a Confessional State? by J. Budziszewski (Q&A)

Modern Thought

• *What’s Wrong with Ockham? by Joshua Hochschild (essay)
• Ibn Sīnā and Descartes on the Nature of Body by Kenny Pearce (blogpost)
• Descartes and the Rise of the ‘New Philosophy’ by Kenny Pearce (blogpost)
• Some Reflections on Teaching Modern Philosophy by Kenny Pearce (blogpost)
• All Times Are Bad Times by Edmund Waldstein (blogpost)
• The Closing of the American Mind Revisited by R. R. Reno (article)
• The Autumn of the Modern Ages (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5) by Michael Flynn (blogpost series)
• What the Natural Sciences Do Not Explain by Alasdair MacIntyre (video talk)
• Philosophy Lives by John Haldane (article)
• Hitting the metaphysical snooze button by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Pigliucci on metaphysics by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Unintuitive metaphysics by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• The End of Ideology by J. Budziszewski (blogpost)
• In Dread of Modernity by Felix de St. Vincent (article)
• Drawing Blindfolded by J. Budziszewski (blogpost)
• Plotinus and Augustine on Gnosticism by Thomas Bertonneau (blogpost)
• The Supreme Court, Religion, and Morality by J. Budziszewski (blogpost)
• The Modern World in a Nutshell by Alan Roebuck (blogpost)
• The wisdom of the world by James Chastek (blogpost)
• The two faces of tolerance by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• A Bible First for Children by Alan Jacobs (article)
• The Crisis of Evidence, or, Why Probability and Statistics Cannot Discover Cause by William Briggs (blogpost)
• Locke and His Followers (part 1, part 2, part 3) by Timothy Yenter (blogpost series)

Religion

• The damaging myth of “Relationship not Religion” by Joel McDurmon (article)
• Neither nature nor grace alone by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Faith and the Problem of Evil by Eleonore Stump (lecture)
• For Him and Yet for Ourselves by J. Budziszewski (blogpost)
• Sex and Religion by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Geach on worshipping the right God by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Faith, reason, and orders of causality by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Believing without evidence by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Why believe in God? by Sarah Coakley (video Q&A)
• Fear of the unknown by Alexander Pruss (blogpost)
• Reactions to the Pope’s Encyclical on Contraception by Dale Ahlquist (article)
• Religions as “Faiths” by Alexander Pruss (blogpost)

Contemporary Objections to Religion

• Review of God’s Philosophers by Tim O’Neill (blogpost)
• Modern Science’s Christian Sources by James Hannam (article)
• Science & Religion vs Scientism by Robert Barron (video)
• Do Evil Acts In Church History Reflect Jesus and His Teaching? by William Lane Craig (video debate snippet)
• The myth of religious violence by Karen Armstrong (article)
• Religion and Violence by Robert Barron (video)
• Science dorks by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Why can’t these guys stay on topic? Or read? by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Summa origines scientiarum (part 1, part 2, part 3) by Michael Flynn (blogpost series)
• The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown by Michael Flynn (blogpost series)
• Debunking the Flat Earth Myth by Jay Wile (blogpost)
• Mathematics and the Scientific Revolution by Edmund Waldstein (blogpost)
• Jesus is not your invisible magic friend by Lydia McGrew (blogpost)
• Why Would God Wait So Long to Reveal Himself? by William Lane Craig (Video Q&A)
• Here’s Why That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic Stinks by William Briggs (blogpost)

Suffering and Divine Hiddenness

• A Catholic Reflection on the Meaning of Suffering by Bryan Cross (article)
• Faith and the Problem of Evil by Eleonore Stump (lecture)
• Our Heart’s Desire by Eleonore Stump (video Q&A)
• The Problem of Evil and Theodicy by Eleonore Stump (video talk)
• The Problem of Evil by Peter van Inwagen (Gifford lecture series)
• Tsunami and Theodicy by David Bentley Hart (article)
• Assumptions in the Argument from Evil by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Why Doesn’t God Stop Evil? by William Lane Craig (video Q&A)
• Pascal on God’s Hiddenness by Blaise Pascal (quote)
• Is God’s Existence Evident to Every Sincere Seeker? by William Lane Craig (Q&A)
• Divine hiddenness and a fallacy of practical reasoning by Alexander Pruss (blogpost)
• Hiddenness and the Necessary Condition Fallacy by Alexander Pruss (blogpost) (This is the same post as above, but I’ve put it here for the discussion in the comments section).
• Preventing Suffering by Alexander Pruss (blogpost)

Divine action

• Biblical Passages dealing with God’s Providence, God’s control and our free will, Middle Knowledge or Molinism? by me (bloposts)
• Causality, pantheism, and deism by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• Perils of the Open Road by William Lane Craig (paper)
• God’s General Concurrence with Secondary Causes: Why Conservation Isn’t Enough by Alfred Freddoso (paper)
• God’s General Concurrence with Secondary Causes: Pitfalls and Prospects by Alfred Freddoso (paper)
• Medieval Aristotelianism and the Case Against Secondary Causation in Nature by Alfred Freddoso (paper)
• Universal in praedicando, universal in causando (alternate copy) Ronald McArthur (paper)
• Predestination: Some Questions and Misconceptions by Sebastian Walshe (paper)
• Book Review: The Inescapable Love of God (part 7) by Aidan Kimel (blogpost)
• For Fr. Kimel by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Divine Creative Freedom by Alexander Pruss (paper)
• Dual Agency: A Thomistic Account of Divine Providence and Human Freedom by Robert C Koons (paper)
• Destiny and Deliberation (ch. 8) by Jonathan Kvanvig (paper)
• Divine Premotion by David Oderberg (paper)

Creation and evolution

• The Genesis prologue (sections 1 and 8), by me (exegetical notes)
• Evolution and Christian Laypeople by Tim Keller (paper)
• Redeeming Science (ch. 4-10) by Vern Poythress (chapters)
• Christian Interpretations of Genesis 1 by Vern Poythress (book)
• Defenders 2: Creation and Evolution by William Lane Craig (podcast series)
• Because It Had Not Rained by Meredith Kline (paper)
• Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony by Meredith Kline (paper)
• Modern Biology and Original Sin (part 1, part1.5, and part 2) by Edward Feser (blogposts)
• Adam and Eve and Ted and Alice by Michael Flynn (blogpost)
• Science, Theology, and Monogenesis by Kenneth Kemp (paper)
• Knowing an ape from Adam by Edward Feser (blogpost)
• A review of John H Walton’s The Lost World of Adam and Eve (part 1, part 2, and part 3) by Lydia McGrew (blogpost series)
• Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas on Original Sin by Chris Siefert (paper)
• Positive monogenism by James Chastek (blogpost)
• Thomistic Evolution: A Catholic Approach to Understanding Evolution in Light of Faith (website)
• Death before the Fall by me (blogpost)
• Animal Death Before the Fall by Lee Irons (blogpost)
• Death, Leviathan, and Martyrs by Meredith Kline (paper)
• Natural Law, Metaphysics, and God as Creator (talk, Q&A) by Eleonore Stump (audio talk)
• No One Like Him by John S Feinberg (book)

Time and Eternity

• Eternity’s relation to time by me (blogpost)
• The Ontological Status of Time in St. Thomas Aquinas by Cecilia Trifogli (audio talk)
• What is God’s Eternity? by Eleonore Stump (video Q&A)
• How Does God Relate to Time? by Eleonore Stump (video Q&A)
• Eternity, not determinism by James Chastek (blogpost)
• The Openenss of God: Eternity and Free Will (talk, Q&A) by Eleonore Stump (video talk and Q&A)
• Eternity, Simplicity, and Divine Presence (talk, Q&A) by Eleonore Stump (video talk and Q&A)
• Three-step approach to eternity by James Chastek (blogpost)

Atonement

• The Athanasian theory of atonement by James Chastek (blogpost)
• WLC on Eleonore Stump’s Critique of Reformation Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theories by William Lane Craig (video talk)
• The Nature of Atonement by Eleonore Stump (video talk)
• Eleonore Stump At-onement: Overview by Eleonore Stump, Comments (1) by Oliver Crisp, Comments (2) by Alina Beary, Comments (3) by Sarah Gutierrez (video talks)

Women in ministry

• What Eve did and what women shouldn’t do by AC Perriman (paper)
• Ephesians 5 and the submission of the wife, Evangelicals and egalitarianism, Women and creation, The vision of complementarianism, Conclusion: Not me too by Jordan Pickering (blogpost series)

Other biblical theology

• Two Meta-Theological Questions by me (blogpost)
• Covenental Modalism by me (blogpost)
• Enabling, not burdening by me (blogpost)
• Bible In Five by Tim Mackie (series)
• biblicalstudies.org.uk
• Jesus’ Divinity and Monotheism in the New Testament by Richard Bauckham (interview)
• The Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham (interview)

Others that I can’t place just yet

• Lecture on Kant by James Chastek (lecture)
• Thomism and the Quantum Enigma by William A Wallace (review)
• Where Are The Philosophers? by Tom Morris (blogpost)
• Is it funny because it’s true? and The comedy keeps coming by Edward Feser (blogposts)
• Introduction to the Logical Categories of Aristotle by Porphyry (book)
• The second-personal and the transmission of knowledge through testimony by Eleonore Stump (video talk)
• Natural theology, natural science, and the philosophy of nature and Philosophy of nature and philosophy of (fill in the blank) by Edward Feser (blogposts)
• Ancient versus Classical-modern Physics (part 1, part 2, part 3) by James Chastek (blogposts)