New links of interest to those interested in philosophy…

1. “Imagine volunteering for a challenge study and the very worst happens: you die… What conditions would need to be in place for you or your family to conclude that you had been treated fairly?” — Carl Elliott (Minnesota) in the NYRB
2. Is Schopenhauer the philosopher for our times? — well, at least The New York Times — with remarks from Agnes Callard, Tamsin Shaw, and others
3. Two former philosophy students make up half the team running “The Invisible College” — it’s a science and technology scholarship program aimed at people who haven’t graduate from college (via MR)
4. How should professors supervise/guide their teaching assistants? — a discussion at The Philosophers’ Cocoon
5. “When does playing with ideas become intellectual work?” — Anil Gomes (Oxford) on boredom, isolation, children, and philosophy
6. Racial Diminishment Syndrome: “like the coronavirus, is hard to detect, highly contagious and often deadly” — “social distancing will decrease the likelihood of extreme illness or untimely death,” says Chris Lebron (Johns Hopkins)
7. “It is remarkable that Western philosophy should feel entitled to claim the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy as its property” — and that’s just one of the problems with the very idea of “Western Philosophy,” says Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities)

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