Mini-Heap
The latest links added to the Heap…
- On speaking ill of the dead — Iskra Fileva (Colorado) in the NYT on what can be learned from controversies surrounding the discussion of Kobe Bryant in the wake of his recent death (via What’s Wrong)
- “Certainly many misdeeds do occur because of the misure of science. But I worry that they also presupposes that when science is functioning properly there are no misdeeds” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) responds to Chirimuuta and Dietrich
- The varieties of theories about time travel and causation represented in fictional works — by Henry Reich of MinutePhysics
- “There’s a temptation once you know how to solve a philosophical problem, to make everything into a philosophical problem. But lots of problems don’t have [that] shape.” — Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) is profiled in the Financial Times
- “A collection of resources for higher education faculty and administrators to use in making the case for the value of studying the humanities as an undergraduate” — the “Study the Humanities” toolkit (via the Blog of the APA)
- “Anger implicates all of us in moral corruption… How much immorality should we permit ourselves?” — Agnes Callard (Chicago), in the lead essay in a new Boston Review forum on anger
- Suppose belonging to a certain demographic group correlates with being 100 times more likely than others to commit a crime. Should this be admissible evidence in a court of law? — a discussion of an argument from Marcello Di Bello and Collin O’Neill (Lehman)
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!
I have written a response to Agnes Callard’s article (no. 6) that might interest some readers and listeners of this blog. You can find my response to Agnes Callard on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY here:
https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2020/01/28/reconfiguring-values-a-riposte-to-agnes-callard/