Mini-Heap
Hump-day-Mini-Heap.
- Google Translate and philosophy of language — “Wittgenstein’s theories gave them a breakthrough in making their translation services more effective,” reports Olivia Goldhill at Quartz
- The life of the mind is being destroyed by technological distraction and administrative overload — Cal Newport (Georgetown) discusses what can be done about the “crisis of concentration that has hit higher education particularly hard”
- “Having applicants provide letters of recommendation only after the initial screening stage can reduce stress and unnecessary paperwork for candidates, letter-writers and hiring committees” — the American Historical Association changes its hiring process guidelines
- “The philosophical community needs to do some soul searching about how we managed to unnecessarily isolate ourselves and what can be done to reverse that trend.” — Kevin Zollman (CMU) has some ideas
- “Is there in your opinion, professor Carnap, also in philosophy any progress that corresponds to the idea of progress in science?” “Yes” — a video interview with Rudolf Carnap (link to downloadable English captions in the credits)
- “‘Socrates’ is a witty and endlessly fascinating new drama about a complicated man who changed how the world thought.” — it opens in NYC in April
- “Rawls maintains [that] the stability of otherwise just institutions depends on their embodying an idea of reciprocity.” And “reciprocal” is “one of Mr. Trump’s favorite terms.” — Samuel Scheffler on liberalism in theory and politics in practice (NYU)
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