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, please send ’em in.
- Resources for teaching argument mapping — from Simon Cullen
- Libertarianism vs. meritocracy — libertarianism doesn’t take merit seriously, argues Thomas Mulligan (Georgetown)
- What questions does string theory answer? Which does it leave unanswered? — a talk by James Ladyman (Bristol)
- The Australasian Philosophy Family Tree — additions sought
- Is there a point to moral philosophy? — And will moral philosophers accept the answer? “Like people in love who are told the loved one isn’t worth their love, they won’t believe it”
- The way modern academia measures research achievement means that some of the worst articles are the most successful — “how academia has been hacked”
- “The Good Place,” the network sitcom featuring a philosophy professor, is back for a second season— but don’t read this if you haven’t watched the first season yet
- Hayek’s recollections of his meetings with his second cousin, Wittgenstein — “Whether he… had discovered that, after all, I was just another Philistine, I do not know” (via Brandon Christensen)
- Retracting philosophy articles: are there more than just procedural grounds for it? — Eric Schliesser comments
- What makes a student a “star”? — not “instagenius,” but rather “the ability to keep showing up when things do not go well” (via Samantha Brennan)
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