Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap!
- The first traffic jam on Broadway was caused by a philosophy lecture — before clicking, can you guess who it was? Hint: this was in 1913
- How not to be an atheist — an interview with Tim Crane (CEU)
- A philosophy graduate student lost his eyesight while working on his PhD — what he learned has changed the way he teaches
- “Sartre helps us to appreciate how individuals come together to create hope where there was none by acting collectively.” — Ronald Aronson on Sartre’s existentialist Marxism
- A fictionalized biography of Hannah Arendt in the form of a graphic novel — by well-known cartoonist Ken Krimstein
- “The deeper reason that technology so often disappoints and betrays us is that it promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.” — on Plato’s prescience regarding social media
- Is this an argument for corporal punishment? — Or a reductio of retributivism?
- “You hear about the moon restaurant? Good food, no atmosphere! If you eat there, you forfeit your life, which would make no difference to the universe as a whole.” — nihilist dad jokes by Alex Baia
- “I think we’ve demonstrated between us that it is possible to debate this issue frankly and even bluntly, and without agreeing on everything—and still get somewhere.” — Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University) and Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne) discuss transgender identity
- Over 55% of the Members of Parliament who majored in philosophy support Brexit — the second-highest proportion, after classics (via Mihail Evans)
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.
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. Thanks!
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