Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items of interest to philosophers (and others interested in philosophy) from the Daily Nous Heap of Links.
(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.)
- Free speech, hate speech, respect, and human dignity — Tina Botts (CSU Fresno) comments on the controversy regarding a professor’s controversial tweets about Barbara Bush
- In her new one-woman (and one-dog) show, Isabella Rossellini “transforms herself into Aristotle, Descartes, F.S. Skinner, Charles Darwin, and more, to deliver a vivid monologue about the brilliance of the animal kingdom” — it’s called “Link Link Circus” (via Jeff Sebo, who taught Rossellini in a course on animal minds & consulted on a draft of the script’s philosophical material)
- In modern investment terms, Thales bought call options on the olive presses and paid a small premium for the option — why was this “one of the most important events… in market history”?
- To say that “all accusations should be taken seriously and pursued” is “a way of saying we confer presumptive credibility on accusers, not that we simply believe without question every accusation” — Linda Martín Alcoff (CUNY) on sexual assault, repentant sexists, and accountability
- “Our common institutional setting induces social-epistemic similarities between philosophy and science, despite the cultural or methodological differences between us” — an interview with Liam Kofi Bright (Carnegie Mellon)
- A statue of Mary Wollstonecraft will be erected in Newington Green in north London — it will be by artist Maggi Hambling
- “I think that philosophy of science can be a great bridge between science and the public. It’s almost like science journalism at a very sophisticated level.” — Eric Winsberg (South Florida) is interviewed as part of the Dialogues on Disability series
- Antiheroes (e.g., Tony Soprano, Walter White) are among people’s favorite characters; what about antiheroines? — Adriana Clavel-Vazquez (Hull) on aesthetics, imagination, and the “rough heroine”
- Why honor matters — Tamler Sommers (Houston) talks honor, dignity, courage, and philosophy with Robert Wright
- The death of Wittgenstein’s boyfriend almost drove him to suicide — John Preston (Reading) on David Pinsent
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