Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected in a post for your perusal and discussion.
If you have suggestions for the Heap of Links, please send ’em in.
- Five short takes on Kipnis’ Unwanted Advances plus a response of a sort from the author — the one by Friedman is especially on point & goes unanswered by Kipnis (via Matt McAdam)
- How to talk to famous professors — including “five time-tested approaches”
- “Could we still claim our mantle as true philosophers if we, as a matter of policy, uncritically made use of our inherited concepts?” — Liam Kofi Bright (CMU) on the idea of and motivation for decolonising philosophy
- Why philosophy majors would make great entrepreneurs — by entrepreneur Nicholas Miller (elaborating on a previous piece in The Observer)
- Socrates’ idea of a perfectly just city — discussed by MM McCabe (KCL) on BBC Radio
- “I certainly don’t have any plans” to eliminate the Center for Thomistic Studies — says the new president of St. Thomas, Houston
- The “private government” that rules over most of us — an interview with Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan)
- Good and bad arguments — Trudy Govier (Lethbridge) talks with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) at Why We Argue
- Are natural laws necessary by virtue of being natural laws, or are they natural laws by virtue of being necessary? — an interview with Marc Lange (UNC Chapel Hill)
- People’s “ex post evaluation of well-being is generally higher when identical consequences result from a high-risk situation than from a low-risk situation” (via MR)
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