Mini-Heap
The latest Mini-Heap…
- “If you take Collegra 256 times a year for four years, Collegra will improve your critical reasoning, moral reasoning, analytic, and quantitative skills” — Jason Brennan (Georgetown) and Phillip Magness (AIER) argue that a lot of academic advertising is unethical
- Cookbook ethics — Andy Lamey and Ike Sharpless (UCSD) look at how many animals would have to die to prepare the recipes in various cookbooks
- “We find that faculty’s work environments, not selection effects, drive their productivity and prominence, establishing that where a researcher works serves as a mechanism for cumulative advantage” — a new study published in PNAS, discussed at IHE
- Is “Philosophy, Politics, and Economics” (PPE) a viable research area, and if so, what could PPE research be? — thoughts from Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) in the wake of a recent PPE conference
- What is “compression plagiarism”? — a brief interview with philosophy’s plagiarism patrolman, Michael Dougherty (Ohio Dominion)
- “Plato’s dialogues show possibilities for intellectual progress across disagreement…not in the first instance by coming to agreement, but by exploring one another’s points of view” — an interview with Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell)
- “We’re playing god every day” — an interview with Julian Savulescu (Oxford) on reproductive technologies
Mini-Heap posts appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the ever-growing collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers.
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. Thanks!
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