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.
- A couple of philosophers are attempting to convince Alabamians to vote for Roy Moore — and even National Review thinks they’re doing a lousy job of it
- In memory of Derek Parfit — a conference later this month at Rutgers
- Inequality and democracy — Tommie Shelby (Harvard) talks with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt)
- “Looking down, she unbuckled his belt. ‘We’re grown-ups.’ Perhaps he wasn’t quite in the moment, because he thought of Kierkegaard and Socrates…” — philosophy takes a turn in this year’s Bad Sex In Fiction shortlist
- “A collection of philosophers who write and podcast about issues in politics… rooted in the idea that philosophers owe more to society” — check out The Vim
- Sexual misconduct by political theorist Gopal Balakrishnan (Santa Cruz) — alleged in several accounts
- The TH!NK philosophy program for elementary students, created by Marcello Fiocco (Irvine) — profiled at CHE (previously)
- “The defense of freedom and of the liberal society can’t be an exclusively legal concern” — Jacob Levy (McGill) on why “only politics can save us”
- In praise of Philippa Foot — by Nakul Krishna (Cambridge)
- “The unhappiness expressed by so many university academics might really result from an uneasy conscience about their own curiosity” — at the Partially Examined Life
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