Mini-Heap
The latest additions to the Heap of Links:
- “Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) can be weaponized to justify undermining academic freedom and subjecting untenured and contingent faculty to surveillance and bullying” — a professor reports on his experience at a liberal arts college (via Ben Hale)
- Conspiracy theories assert that events have a “deeper meaning” but it is the “theories themselves that have a deeper meaning and that meaning is political” — Quassim Cassam (Warwick) in The New Statesman
- Scientists have used shortwave-infrared hyperspectral imaging to read previously inaccessible parts of Philodemus’ history of Plato’s Academy — “it provides a unique view of an ancient philosopher’s writing process,” says Kilian Fleischer (Würzburg)
- “Nietzsche remains a heroic figure in intellectual history because his lonely, desperate quest seems to join up with so many other expeditions of the mind and soul” — Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s longtime music critic, on understanding Nietzsche and his significance
- “Democracy is government by discussion, and, if you make discussion fearful, you are not going to get a democracy, no matter how you count the votes” — an interview with Amartya Sen (Harvard) on democracy in India (The New Yorker)
- “What we need isn’t so much more philosophy that tries to speak to a non-philosophical audience, as more philosophy that comes from a place of engagement with the non-philosophical world.” — an interview with Amia Srinivasan (Oxford)
- One of Trump’s judicial nominees has a Master’s degree in philosophy from Georgetown — Sarah Pitlyk has some controversial views, including opposition to in vitro fertilization
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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