Mini-Heap
Wednesday evening Mini-Heap…
- Is the philosopher’s love of disagreement tied to the idea that we form our personal identities in part by setting ourselves apart from others? — Martin Lenz (Groningen) on a way in which philosophical disagreement may be personal
- Extremism may be best understood as a complex of psychological factors rather than as a type of political doctrine or affiliation — Quassim Cassam (Warwick) in The New Statesman
- “Trial By Trolley” is a “party game of moral dilemmas and trolley murder!” — a video overview of the game (via Pete Mandik) (yes you can actually purchase this game)
- Theorizing racial justice — video of the 2020 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Michigan by Charles Mills (CUNY)
- “Stranger Apologies” is a new blog on politics, polarization, and (ir)rationality from Kevin Dorst (Oxford) — in this post he argues that the central problem of today’s political discourse is not polarization, but demonization that begins with seeing our opponents as irrational
- “Where moral improvement of the world is concerned, concepts that don’t answer to the mixed nature of human experience won’t be effective at steering that experience” — Amy Olberding (Oklahoma) thinks that when discussing anger, it’s a mistake to “conceptually isolate it from other emotions”
- “After Dinner Conversation” is a website that publishes original short stories aimed at prompting conversations about ethics — each story is accompanied by discussion questions
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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