Mini-Heap
Another day, another Mini-Heap…
- “Know thyself”. Sure. But how do the 140 or so other Delphic maxims fare? — Charlie Huenemann (Utah State) on which may still serve us today (also here)
- A first edition of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” is going up for auction — it is expected to sell for over $65,000
- The epistemic advantage of being susceptible to confusion — a human quality that’s difficult to build into artificial intelligence
- Where Friedrich Nietzsche meets Virginia Woolf — philosophy of time through dance, happening this weekend
- “Should we get lobsters high on marijuana? Let’s ask a philosopher” said no one — until the other day.
- More tricks for teaching Aristotle — from Adriel Trott (Wabash)
- Great Grannie’s pie, the stolen watch, the drowning child, and the imperialist queen — misleading metaphors in philosophical work on global justice
- Philosophizing about animals, women, the disabled, and prisoners — an interview with Lori Gruen (Wesleyan)
- Students, take that philosophy course — the president of Johns Hopkins makes a case for the humanities in the Washington Post
- “The Trolley Problem is not a problem or a puzzle to be solved.” — how a philosophy professor responds to students who want to know what its solution is
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