Mini-Heap


New Mini-Heap of philosophy-related links…

  1. “The machine sees the world in a different way than we see the world. Just like an artist does.” — Arthur I. Miller (UCL) is interviewed about machine-created art by someone skeptical of its value
  2. Minds, patterns, and the scientific image — Daniel Dennett (Tufts) in conversation with Sean Carroll (Caltech)
  3. “Do we really want to encourage first-generation college students from low-income families to play a 1-in-10 winner lottery with their lives?” — Jason Brennan (Georgetown) on why we should be wary of recruiting students from low-income backgrounds into academia
  4. “I just have to give the rock credit for what it did out there. In all of our matchups, it’s used a similar strategy, and, I have to admit, it’s working.” — sports coverage of Sisyphus, in The New Yorker (via Andrew Mills)
  5. Was killing Suleimani justified? — Peter Singer (Princeton) takes up the question
  6. How academic organizations can benefit from shared, multi-institutional collaborative academic event calendars — an example of the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) ecosystem, from Lynn Chiu (Bordeaux/CNRS, St. Andrews)
  7. Students protest tenure denial of assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago — the students seem to think he was denied tenure because of the kind of philosophy he specializes in

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. Discussion welcome.

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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