Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected and numbered for your convenience.
As usual, if you have suggestions for the Heap of Links, please send ’em in.
- Black children who appear in juvenile court in the week following a loss by the area college’s football team get harsher sentences — Erin Tarver (Emory) on that and other morally salient aspects of college football
- Should journals publish work by graduate students? — the discussion continues at Inside Higher Ed
- “Their willingness to engage near-death experiences with philosophical seriousness is… courageous and, institutionally speaking, path-breaking” — philosophers look at the possibility of life after death
- Racial explanations: “taboo” in philosophy? — no, not now, but in the first half of the 20th Century; Schliesser on Bright on race and logical empiricism
- Steps towards measuring the virtues — on developing a scale of intellectual humility
- “What do we want?” “To question everything!” “When do we want it?” “Well, actually, what if time is an illusion?” — philosophers go on strike (EC)
- As you plan for the upcoming semester — don’t forget to plan for having a life outside of work
- “It would be foolish to pretend that there aren’t obvious biological differences between human beings and that these differences are tied to certain geographical regions… but there’s a big difference between race and diversity” says David Livingstone Smith (New England)
- Philosophers at theme parks — in The New Yorker (via Tanya Kostochka)
- “The enormous, singular joke of our epoch is not funny” — Justin E. H. Smith (University of Paris) on theories of humor
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