Vexing Links (6/13/2015)

Some recent links of note:

• Paula Gottlieb has updated the entry “Aristotle on Non-contradiction” on the SEP, with an interesting section on essentialism.  According to Gottlieb, Aristotle argues for something like this: ~(PNC) ⊃ ~(Aristotelian Essentialism).  The question is whether the acceptance of PNC is implied by Aristotelian essentialism.  I don’t think it is.
• WWII’s death toll is truly mind-blowing.
• Subscribe to my friend Tim Hull’s Everyday Apologist YouTube channel (do it now!).  He has some great interviews (and I will be on his show soon).
• Ed Feser’s Neo-Scholastic Essays is out (and I want).
• John Leonard discusses the Carbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin.  I think there is good reason to doubt the 13th century date.
• Deeper Waters’s Nick Peters dismantles some internet memes (they’ll still show up on your facebook feed, but it is good to have a response ready).
• William Lane Craig and Alvin Plantinga both deny the classical doctine of divine immutability on Closer to Truth.  Both agree that omniscience entails the inability for God to change his mind. Robert Lawrence Kuhn seems to think the ability to improve is some sort of perfection which God should have.  I don’t share that intuition at all.
• Tinities Podcast’s Dale Tuggy interviews Trent Dougherty on the problem of evil and animal suffering [Spoiler Alert: there is no easy solution to these issues].
• Books on my nightstand: The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi, Aristotle’s Categories in the Early Roman Empire by Michael J. Griffin and The Reason for God: Belief in a Skeptical Age by Tim Keller.