Mini-Heap
Monday Mini-Heap…
- “The ritual of a Killing Day is known to all adults. It is taught to children first in outline only, and then gradually in more detail as they get older.” — Kieran Healy (Duke) on how the U.S. has “institutionalized the mass shooting”
- In defense of the marriage-free state — Clare Chambers (Cambridge) on the problems with government being involved in marriage
- Philosophers, “hold on to the thing that should have brought you in in the first place, which is your own desire to understand things” — Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton) in a wide-ranging and interesting conversation with Tyler Cowen (GMU)
- Carelessness, dogmatism, gullibility, wishful thinking, and other epistemic vices — Quassim Cassam (Cambridge) talks with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) about his new book
- “I felt phenomenology could provide a way of explicating our existence in its singularity while doing so in light of its universal structures and truths. There is conceptual rigor without existential superficiality.” — philosopher Steven DeLay (Woolf), in an in-depth interview on phenomenology with Richard Marshall at 3:16AM
- “The academic freedom worries are overblown” — Shannon Dea (Waterloo) on the discussion of transgender issues, academic freedom, and why “it is important not to allow social media flame wars to distract us”
- “They thought that my rather different approach… was not only wrong, but it was stupid, and it was undermining philosophy.” — a brief interview with Patricia Churchland (UCSD)
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.
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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