Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected and numbered for your convenience.
As usual, if you have suggestions for the Heap of Links, please send ’em in.
- The ideas and friendship of Hume and Smith — discussed by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts)
- “Being an octopus might be more like being a human than we have tended to think” — Amia Srinivasan on the octopus research of Peter Godfrey-Smith and Sy Montgomery
- How often do articles in (non-English) European language journals cite English-language vs. same-language works? — the latest in a series of language analyses of philosophy articles, at The Splintered Mind
- What is it for something to be alive? — it’s not an easy question, as Marc Lange (UNC) explains
- Don’t fight hate — says David Livingston Smith (New England)
- The uses and abuses of idealization — an interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) in Prospect Magazine
- Emerging pop singer Brynn Elliott is a philosophy major — “she took a course on Albert Einstein and wound up writing a whole concept album for an assignment”
- Does the peeping Tom who is never discovered harm his victims? — David Boonin (Colorado) takes up the question at “What’s Wrong?”
- The charge that a professor who publicly criticizes a group can’t be trusted to fairly grade members of that group — it comes at a steep cost
- A report on a philosophy camp for teens — from Fred Guy (Baltimore)
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