Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap—10 recent items of possible interest to those interested in philosophy, from the Heap of Links.
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.
Discussion welcome.
- “Philosophy, at its best, embodies a kind of cosmopolitan ideal… superficial distinctions between people are erased, and what remains are opportunities for peaceful collaborative effort in a transnational and transtemporal republic of letters” — as we learn from a look at Carnap & Xunzi
- A new “angry professor book project” — from Kieran Healy (Duke)
- At Google, “each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes” — two things philosophers have lots of experience with, no?
- Questions about the philosophy of math — answered by Alexander Paseau (Oxford)
- My letter writer has died; what do I do? — Miss Manners did not cover this
- How utilitarian are you? — test yourself on the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale
- What would make anti-racist optimism rational? — thoughts from Gina Schouten (Harvard), one of the new bloggers at Crooked Timber
- “If I am both my children and my mother, if I carry traces of my sibling and remnants of pregnancies that never resulted in birth, does that change who I am and the way I behave in the world?” — genetics and the separateness of persons
- Does philosophy advance “through singular, brilliant, novel insights” or through “the grind” of small changes to “a vast, complex network of well defended, nearly fully formed positions”? — Charles Pence (LSU) on brilliance and merit in philosophy
- “Colors are not properties of minds (visual experiences), objects, or lights, but of perceptual processes—interactions that involve all three” — Mazviita Chirimuuta (Pittsburgh) talks about color at Nautilus
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