Mini-Heap
Here’s a new Mini-Heap!
- An free, online intro philosophy text in which “each chapter offers a sustained argument for some controversial thesis, specifically written for an audience of beginners” — by Dan Korman (UCSB)
- “Philosophy in plain Arabic” — a program in Cairo aimed at bringing philosophy to the public and improving its image (apparently in Egypt philosophy is an undergrad major with very low standards, according to the article)
- The illiberalism of ordinary police practices — a brief survey of some issues by Luke Hunt (Radford)
- “The resentment of the left behind” — thoughts on #MeToo and the distribution of compassion, from Mikhail Valdman (VCU)
- Was Nozick correct about why academics tend to dislike markets? — yes, according to a study of 1500 French academics
- “Perhaps the problem is not that insects lack an inner life, but that they don’t have a way to communicate it in terms we can understand” — a philosopher and an ecology professor on evidence of “consciousness-like phenomena” in insects
- We should be wary of approaches to history that present “a false picture of the impossibility of independent thought, against the grain, of one’s own times” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on recent discussions of the racism and sexism of canonical philosophers
- Having trouble figuring out whether your syllabus is gender balanced? — there’s an app for that (via Colleen Murphy)
- David Hume’s shiny toe — featured at Atlas Obscura
- “The exclusion of non-European philosophy from the canon was a decision, not something that people have always believed” — and Kant and his defenders are among those responsible for this exclusion, argues Bryan W. Van Norden (Vassar, Yale-NUS, Wuhan)
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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