Another edition of Mini-Heap!

• Move over analytic and continental and philosophy, there’s a new (old?) game in town: synthetic philosophy — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) explains what it is, and why Daniel Dennett is an exemplar of it
• Surviving getting your Ph.D. — helpful advice from Asia Ferrin (American University)
• And some more advice for new grad students — from Dorsa Amir (Yale)
• A new multimedia play on the life and philosophy of Simone Weil makes use of dialogue, dance, video projections, animation and original music — it begins its run at Merseles Studios in September
• Diversity within identities, blameless privilege, essentialism, and more — an interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU)
• “Beg the question” has a new meaning — and it’s perfect
• An update on how the American Society for Aesthetics has dealt with recent accusations of sexual harassment — the accused has agreed not to attend the conference, but is there more the ASA should do?
• How can a woman have a penis? — Katharine Jenkins (Nottingham) provides a primer on how “gender/sex is actually a complex, multifaceted cluster of things that interrelate and interact in myriad ways”
• “The idea was to approximate… the experience of going out for a beer with fellow students after the seminar and continuing to talk about the material—and share this with the world” — about the “Partially Examined Life” podcast and the folks behind it
• Hypatia, the feminist philosophy journal, has a new editorial team in place — the new co-editors are Bonnie J. Mann, Erin McKenna, Camisha Russell, and Rocío Zambrana (all at the University of Oregon)

Mini-Heap posts appear when about 10 new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the ever-growing collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers.

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