Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links. Feel free to discuss.
The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap.
- “But surely all the training and practice in thinking things through clearly makes philosophers immune to the kind of self-serving motivated reasoning that everyone else succumbs to?” — er
- The first episode of Season 2 of the terrific Hi-Phi Nation is out — it’s on “demographic inevitability, the midlife crisis, and how we seek happiness in the face of our approaching death.”
- More than just grade inflation — the problems with grading at American colleges
- “It seems to help me think when things are just on the edge of what I can normally handle.” — a philosopher describes his experience taking a “smart drug”
- The Philosophical Rasika Report — where grad students should go to study Indian philosophy
- The lies and the truth about “sex, love, and the aging woman” –Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) in the NYT’s The Stone
- GLAUCON: Now that we have determined the nature of justice, education, and proper governance, is it finally time for us to go home? / THRASYMACHUS: We have left out the most pernicious evil that can be visited upon a citizenry. — Plato on political correctness
- The favorite Twitter feeds of philosophers who themselves have at least 1000 Twitter followers — if you don’t already, follow Daily Nous
- “Rather than looking for the knock-down argument against X, let’s focus on what may be promising in X and to supply the missing premise or distinction.” — Eric Schliesser on helping others improve their arguments
- “Waiter, there’s a beetle in my soup” — a philosopher creates a video game based on soup and Wittgenstein
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