Mini-Heap
Welcome to another edition of Mini-Heap!
Mini-Heap posts appear when about 10 new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the ever-growing collection of items around the web that may be of interest to philosophers.
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.
- DC and Maryland have a philosophy-trained law professor to thank for a decision allowing their anti-corruption lawsuit against Trump to proceed — John Mikhail (Georgetown) was mentioned 17 times in the decision
- “Researchers who leave academia are not failed academics” — what to do to change perceptions and prepare graduate students for professional careers outside academia (via Branden Fitelson)
- “Whether an influence is manipulative depends on how it is being used” — Robert Noggle (Central Michigan) on the difference between persuasion and manipulation
- How to teach usually neglected women philosophers by showing them as “active participants in the philosophical dialogues of their era” — new teaching materials from Project Vox
- “The Good Place,” NBC’s philosophy-centered sitcom, has a podcast (via Philosophy Matters)
- “It is not the transition from premises to conclusion that is often at fault but the premises themselves.” — Gerald Dworkin on the need to adjust critical thinking courses in light of current information technology and its abuses
- Philosophy begins with doubt, some say, but what is doubt? — Andrew Moon (VCU) introduces his view of doubt using ants (see the fuller argument in the linked paper)
- “Though some think that Western philosophy has entered a golden age, others of us fear that it may have ended, that there is and will be no next member of the series after Cavell, after Lewis, after Derrida” — Abe Stone (UC Santa Cruz) on lessons learned from Stanley Cavell
- Over 20 interviews with philosophers on philosophy of action — at the Philosophy of Action website (via István Zárdai)
- Against trends, this university just last semester launched a philosophy major — it is based in UC Merced’s Cognitive and Information Sciences Department
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