Mini-Heap
After a quasi-hiatus (quasiatus?) over winter break, the growth of the Heap of Links continues. Here’s the latest Mini-Heap—10 recent items of possible interest to those interested in philosophy, from the Heap. 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.
- “I need not fear that the lecture will make the texts too easy; they remain full of possibility. And it is useful to remember how difficult it was for me when I read them for the first time.” — the case for lecturing more, from Adriel Trott (Wabash)
- Gödel’s 1939 unpublished lecture notes for a course in basic logic — now published, by the Logical Society of Belgrade
- Students pester women professors more (via FP)
- A philosophy professor is running for Congress — Randy Auxier (SIUC) seeks the Green Party’s nomination
- “She philosophized about vagueness—-and lived with it too” — a profile of the late Delia Graff Fara, in the New York Times
- Experimental aesthetics — a cookoff to test nominees for Sellars’ “incompatible food triad”
- “One of the reasons a lot of philosophers struggle with depression is that we spend so long sharpening our knives they cut deeper when we turn them on ourselves” — long post on mental illness, philosophy, academic employment, and the late Mark Fisher (aka k-punk), from Peter Wolfendale
- Aliveness — Sean Kelly (Harvard) on a gift he received from Hubert Dreyfus
- What to believe about credence — an interview with Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)
- Philosophy isn’t the only discipline with journal editors resigning over the publication of controversial papers — the author says his theory provides a solution to two of Hilbert’s problems about infinite numbers
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