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.
- There are more pragmatists than you might have thought — all about pragmatism, with Cheryl Misak (Toronto)
- An “inclusive bibliography on race, gender, and related topics” — a Google doc created in response to the Hypatia controversy
- “I sometimes pretend that the amygdala of my brain is in my pinky toe” — on the “backfire effect”: your brain’s defense against threatening ideas
- “Can we accept, morally speaking, say a five percent drop in the wages of some American workers in exchange for a 400 percent gain in the incomes of immigrant workers?” “That’s a question for philosophy. That’s a question for ethics.”
- Which ideas should have a place on university campuses? — “one of the most important factors concerns the likely merits of the proposed contribution,” says Patricia Marino (Waterloo)
- “I would rather do anything else than grade your Final Papers” (only a year old, but already timeless)
- “A bully whose behavior is positively reinforced by frightened colleagues quickly becomes out of control” — what’s needed are “moral leaders,” says M.G. Piety (Drexel)
- Martha Nussbaum’s Jefferson Lecture will be livestreamed tonight (May 1st) — 7:35 Eastern Time
- Which philosopher is still important to you today? — interviews with folks on the street in Germany (in German w/ subtitles)
- “Someone who runs to catch a bus is not necessarily a runner; someone who commits a crime is not necessarily a criminal” — a distinction erased by the Trump administration, argues Jason Stanley (Yale)
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