Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap—10 recent items of interest to philosophers (and others interested in philosophy) from the Daily Nous 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.)
- “The photographs in the exhibition are powerful expressions of that ‘strange heart’, of Parfit’s highly distinctive intellectual and aesthetic temperament” — a review of an exhibit of Parfit’s photographs
- Experimental philosophy: its various research programs, criticisms, and defenses — a useful overview
- Using fMRI on brains to detect happiness — why that’s a bad idea
- The Boston Public Library has put high-res, zoomable scans of its collection of M.C. Escher prints online — The detail. Woah.
- “Can we intend to be misinterpreted?” and other interesting questions about language — an interview with Peter Pagin (Stockholm)
- “We should never feel that we have reached that point in life where we no longer have the responsibility to ask questions and then pursue answers” — 81-year-old John Voelpel just earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of South Florida
- How to explain the value of citations to your students — from Dan Martin (Central Florida)
- The role of imagination in eating, drinking, tasting — Aaron Meskin (Leeds) thinks it involves “cognitive penetration”
- So maybe Wittgenstein didn’t invent the emoji — Landon D.C. Elkind (Iowa) sets the record straight
- A new tool: search the websites of philosophers with over 1000 followers on Twitter — from TrueSciPhi
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