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I think it's important to say (in case it isn't obvious to everyone) that the newly hired staff in the literacy centre deserve no approbrium.
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I just emailed a letter to Professor Skrbis and his ACU colleagues on behalf of many concerned philosophers, and a couple of concerned physicists, here […]
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Heap of Links

  • “Contemporary scientists appear to be divided between those who think Neanderthal dignity calls for a recognition of their similarity to us, and those who think it calls for a recognition of their difference” -- Nikhil Krishnan (Cambridge) on the science, ethics, and meaning of disputes over how we think of Neanderthals
  • Last month, NDPR published an especially critical and widely circulated review by Louise Antony (UMass) of a new book in moral philosophy
  • — The book’s authors, Victor Kumar (Boston) and Richmond Campbell (Dalhousie) have now published a response
  • “We might have lived in a world in which every atom was different from every other one and where nothing was stable. In such a world there would be no regularity whatsoever, and our conscious activities would cease” -- Hermann Helmholtz is "interviewed" by Richard Marshall at 3:16AM
  • “‘Absolutely not,’ I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right place on his dresser for Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. ‘I don’t need him staring at me all night'” -- a couple disagrees over the wisdom of Stoicism (NYT)
  • The philosophy and science of consciousness -- a discussion across multiple posts, between Jonathan Birch (LSE) and Hedda Hassel Mørch (Inland Norway)
  • “The political theory defended in Crito is fundamentally wrong, and wrong in a very deep way” -- Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on Socrates the absolutist
  • “The public philosopher is neither an authority figure who has special access to the answers for our social problems nor are they a clever but disinterested observer who can discuss all sides to a given issue” -- rather, says William Paris (Toronto), they aim at making problems intelligible
  • There was an evidentiary hearing in the Kershnar case this week -- the story is covered in the New York Times
  • “Some more self-awareness of the costs and risks of focusing on arguments would make analytic philosophy wiser” -- Eric Schliesser (Amsertdam) on arguments, considerations, systems, and imagery in philosophy
  • “The life and legacy of a man who helped philosophy onto British TV and radio” -- an appreciation of Bryan Magee, from Angie Hobbs (Sheffield), Barry Lam (UC Riverside), MM McCabe (Cambridge), Peter Singer (Princeton) and others, on BBC radio
  • “Why make a law about something that doesn’t exist?” -- the puzzle that prompted philosopher Daniel Hoek (Virginia Tech) to discover that what we've known for 300 years as Newton's first law is based on a mistaken translation
  • “Works of art that illustrate philosophy are inventive in their presentation of abstract philosophical ideas in concrete visual form even as they attest to the importance of written philosophy as a source of artistic inspiration” -- Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke) on how art can illustrate philosophy
  • What it is like to be a philosopher in Ukraine–before 1991 and after -- a report from Viatkina Nataliia (Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
  • “Technology tempts us into being satisfied with pseudo-friendships” -- Paul Woodruff (Texas), who says his “end is near”, reflects on technology and friendship
  • “When you long / To invent right and wrong / When you’re glad / To explore good and bad / But you’re through / Telling folks what to do — That’s metaethics! -- Nomy Arpaly and Jamie Dreier (Brown) sing about metaethics, backed up by Michael Smith (Princeton) on guitar
  • “Admirers of Marx and Freud tend to claim both that their ideas had a positive net effect and that these ideas would not have been proposed had Marx and Freud never lived” -- " I concur with the latter claim, but not with the former," says Jon Elster (Columbia) (from 2011, via MR)
  • “In our scholarly community, the onus should not be solely on early-career researchers to put themselves out there and network. It’s also up to us tenured folk, to help create structures and opportunities for them to do so” -- Helen De Cruz (SLU) on networking in philosophy
  • “There is this tension in the way people write about mathematics — some philosophers and historians in particular” -- an interview with mathematician Andrew Granville on how insights from philosophy help shed light on the social dimensions of mathematics
  • “The rent will be used to address crumbling infrastructure as the upkeep of a completely underground cave is no easy thing” -- Plato's Cave has a new property management company, and it's raising the rent
  • “I’m a philosophy professor and I’ve been thinking about love” *picks up axe* -- Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee) explores the relationship between our love-related concepts and our love-related experiences (in a rather unusual video)
  • “Many effects of learning manifest themselves much later” -- what are the implications of that for a course's learning outcomes or student evaluations? Remarks from Martin Lenz (Groningen)
  • How to participate in philosophy conversations -- included in the Heap previously, this is a useful guide for students by Olivia Bailey (Berkeley)
  • “The expectation that college will help them land a job has led too many students to approach college like a job in its own right: a series of grim tasks that, once completed, qualifies them to perform grimmer but better-paid tasks” -- it would be better if they saw it as "a unique time in your life to discover just how much your mind can do"
  • What are dreams for? Perhaps they are part of how brains “learn the body” -- the work of philosopher Jennifer Windt (Monash), neuroscientist Mark Blumberg (Iowa) and others discussed in The New Yorker (via Gary Bartlett)
  • “In philosophy good positions are interesting in and of themselves. Good arguments can help that, but they are far from necessary” -- Liam Bright (LSE) an analytic philosophy’s argument fetish
  • New exhibit includes never-before-displayed portraits of Nietzsche along with items belonging to him and his sister -- "The Private Nietzsche" has opened at the Klassik Stiftung in Weimar
  • What’s the deal with Leibniz’s hair? -- "the wig takes on enhanced significance if juxtaposed not only to philosophy in general but also to Leibniz’s philosophy in particular," claims Richard Halpern
  • “It is no longer detectable at conventional levels of statistical significance” -- the gender wage gap among faculty at public research universities in the U.S. (via MR)
  • The military use of AI-directed weaponry raises a “wicked ethical conundrum” of responsibility in which a person “could end up serving as… a ‘moral crumple zone”” -- new military technology may require new ethics

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