A new Mini-Heap.

1. What can be legitimately expected if a piece of art? — Sean T. Murphy (Indiana) takes up the question in light of the final episodes of Game of Thrones
2. “The return of this book is a nice reminder to anyone who has any overdue books not to be afraid” — last week, someone returned a book to a library that was 80 years overdue
3. The unusual kind of typewriter Nietzsche used, of which only 35 are known to remain, just sold at auction for €100,000 — it was so special a machine Nietzsche wrote a poem about it: “The writing ball is a thing like me…”
4. If avocados, almonds, and the like are not vegan, then what? — Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford) on the implications for different moral arguments for veganism (via Jean Kazez)
5. A rope, a planet, Wittgenstein, and certainty — a great animation to share with those other folks who are too confident in their beliefs, from Jonathan Ellis (UC Santa Cruz) & Adam Ansorge
6. “Conspiracy Theories are political gambits whose real function is to promote a political agenda” — so argues Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
7. A school in London introduces a “Eudaimonia” program — it uses “the teachings of Aristotle in an attempt to boost pupil wellbeing”

Mini-Heap posts appear when 7 or so 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.

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