Mini-Heap
Once again, here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected and numbered for your convenience. Feel free to discuss.
The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap.
- “The very numbness that can be so adaptive to survival, can also erect walls that stand in the way of human attachment and trust.” — Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) on stoicism and the military
- “An increasingly isolated Pythagoras was left by his wife and four children around 515 B.C., shortly after he accused they themselves of being triangles” — the Pythagorean conspiracy theorems
- “Meritocracy was once a progressive force… but its historical moment has passed” — against merit: a reading list
- Should you try to have sexual relations with people over whom you hold professional power? — the moral significance of what the relevant parties do not know
- “You just have to sit and think about it for a terribly long time as hard as you can” — a profile of Jeff McMahan (Oxford) and his current work, at Quartz
- Science doesn’t need more mavericks — but it does need to become more speculative and risk-friendly, argues Adrian Currie (Cambridge)
- “Professional philosophy is—like most academic disciplines—a gift-giving credit economy” — in which “the more one can give, the more one receives, indirectly, in return”
- “Comparing teachers and scholars criticizing sexism and racism to perpetrators of violence and hate speech closes down discussions necessary to address… those very harms” — Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt) on outrage in academia
- “Pointlessness is terrible. Life is pointless, and that is really not ok.” — an interview with Rivka Weinberg (Scripps)
- “The ways in which those who try to make themselves invulnerable… undermine what makes us most human” — reading about the philosophy of vulnerability during a hurricane
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