Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap.
- The Kavanaugh hearings and “himpathy” — Kate Manne (Cornell) in the New York Times. And Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State) on a similar theme in Psychology Today.
- Increasing the diversity of philosophy you’re teaching — a discussion with John Ramsey (Northern Colorado)
- Is this philosopher “a hidden giant, a profound thinker who… has been unable to commit his ideas to paper”? — the NYT writes about Irad Kimhi, who got his PhD from Pitt in ’93
- “Formal Africana philosophy conspicuously refutes the old Eurocentric lie that only European thought has developed ideas which are appropriately universal” — thoughts from Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
- Waxing philosophical about fantasy football — “You can take a reflective attitude to just about anything,” says Theodore Bach (BGSU-Firelands) in USA Today
- What are you going to do with a degree in that? — it turns out that physics majors get that question, too. What are physics departments doing about it?
- “We can identify some patterns that keep women who have been assaulted conveniently quiet—especially when the assailant is a privileged boy or powerful man” — Kate Manne (Cornell) writing at CNN on the Kavanaugh nomination
- “The way this debate is conducted is unedifying… [and] even the philosophers party to the debate seem to be unable to recognize explicitly each other’s vulnerabilities” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on discussions of transgender issues in philosophy
- Academics “work inhumane hours; are grossly underpaid; face unstable future prospects; and rarely have access to basic professional resources” — maybe *staying* in academia, not leaving it, is “the real failure”
- “A surprise second-place showing in a local beauty contest provides temporary relief, but an academic conference at Marvin Gardens wipes out your savings” — board games for adjunct professors
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