10 recent items of interest to philosophers (and others interested in philosophy) from the Daily Nous Heap of Links. That’s right, it’s time for Mini-Heap!
(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 aesthetics of music usually is focused on the listening, but what about the playing? — Mary Beth Willard (Weber State) on how “there’s just something gorgeous about the feeling when the fingering, after lots of practice, becomes natural.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche or Janelle Monáe? — can you guess who said what? (via Jean Kazez)
- On productivity and types of careers in philosophy — Schliesser replies to Aboulafia
- “I would still say to anyone who might be considering getting a philosopher as a father, don’t do it!” — philosophers on fatherhood, in the NYT
- “Our political divisions… now run so deep as to subvert our attempts to explain the dangers they pose” — Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) on why “we ought to give up the idea that there is such a thing as fake news”
- There has been more forced “eugenic” sterilization recently than you might think — and the chair of a philosophy department signed off on some of it. Robert Wilson (La Trobe) explains.
- DN readers can get 20% off tix for the big HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy festival — just use the code “DNous20” at checkout
- “The hand of Kant lies behind both Bohr and Kuhn.” and it’s Kant who “pulled off the grandest intellectual hocus-pocus in scholarly history” — Tim Maudlin (NYU) reviews a pair of popular books on science and philosophy
- Business Ethics Quarterly issues “Expression of Concern” over self-plagiarism case (via Michael Dougherty)
- “Neither a victory for the right wing nor a tragedy for the left wing, but a call to both sides of the culture wars to cool off and do better.” — John Corvino (Wayne State) on the gay wedding cake case decision (via What’s Wrong)
