Mini-Heap
Mini-Heap: recent items from the Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.
If you have suggestions for the Heap of Links, send ’em in.
- “You don’t need to feel like you’re succeeding” — and other ways to figure out whether academia is for you
- A Facebook group for those interested in philosophy of body practices, including yoga, martial arts, qigong, etc. — organized by Lisa Miracchi (Penn) and Steven Geisz (Tampa)
- “A joke is basically syllogistic” — comedians Kenny and Keith Lucas, aka the Lucas Brothers, read a lot of philosophy
- Article attributed to disabled man Anna Stubblefield was found guilty of sexually assaulting is retracted — but not, perhaps, for the reason you might think
- “Machines will become morally much better than we are, or morally much worse. But the point is that we won’t be able to tell which is which” — Regina Rini (NYU) with some fascinating thoughts about the future of morality
- In philosophy of science, will increased scientific specialization crowd out the philosophy? — Celso Neto (Calgary) on the future of philosophy of science
- “I hadn’t even noticed she was being talked over” — a philosophy undergrad reflecting on her professor calling out interruptions
- “One can’t inquire unless one has a target to aim at and that, in turn, requires knowing what one is inquiring into—the very thing [one doesn’t] know. — Gail Fine (Cornell) on the Meno paradox
- Physicists develop a fluid with “negative mass”: the harder you push it away, the faster it accelerates towards you — file under: reality > intuition
- “Just because the jokes you tell never change, doesn’t mean that nothing does” (EC)