Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links. 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.
- Hume, the world’s worst detective (EC)
- “Things male academics have said to me” — a list
- “Searching for Logic” is an open source logic textbook that focuses on searching for information, rather than deduction — from Adam Morton (UBC)
- “All our tidy reasoning about what mortals must expect and should accept doesn’t replace the ‘ornery’ truth of our dependence on beloved elders” — Amy Olberding (Oklahoma) on the death of the elderly
- To reduce corruption in college sports, tell the truth — says Samuel Gorovitz (Syracuse)
- “Together, we’ll try to figure out what’s right and true. And what you end up believing is, well, up to you.” — Bas van der Vossen writes to his students about academic freedom and his Koch-funded position
- Dehumanization may not be the problem: “our best and our worst tendencies arise precisely from seeing others as human” — Paul Bloom (Yale) looks at recent work by David Livingstone Smith, Kate Manne, and others
- “Not only can he correct the philosophers when they’re playing science wrong, but he can correct the scientists when they get the philosophy wrong.” — a profile of Massimo Pigliucci (City College of NY)
- “You take a look at the vast variety of people that move into the profession of being a data scientist… there’s… a big group coming from philosophy” — says Mike Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies
- The “hidden curriculum” of “unfortunate attitudes and practices” professors teach their grad students — thoughts from Steven M. Cahn (CUNY)
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