Mini-Heap
From the Heap of Links…
- “Virtue signalling has its place in moral discourse, and we shouldn’t be so ready to denigrate it” — argues Neil Levy (Oxford/Macquarie)
- The arguments against impeaching Trump — Michael Huemer (Colorado) explains what’s wrong with them
- “I do not so much reject the supernatural, as explore how far the large-scale defects of human life might be authentically met within a non-reductive naturalistic framework.” — a wide-ranging, interesting, and informative interview with Mark Johnston (Princeton) by Daniel Kodsi at Oxford Review of Books
- Is scientism a threat to philosophy? — further discussion by Catherine Wilson (CUNY) and and more on the subject — from Ian James Kidd
- The opportunity costs of poverty — a way of understanding poverty, from Jonathan Wolff (Oxford)
- Applied philosophy of the near future: minds & privacy — a conversation between Susan Schneider (Connecticut / NASA) and Evan Selinger (RIT)
- George Eliot translated Spinoza’s Ethics in 1856 — If her manuscript had been published then it would have been the first published English translation of the work (via Brian Weatherson)
- “We cannot, nor would we, fire Professor Rasmusen for his posts as a private citizen, as vile and stupid as they are, because the First Amendment… forbids us to do so.” — a Provost’s statement on a professor who “for many years, used his private social media accounts to disseminate his racist, sexist, and homophobic views”
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. Discussion welcome.
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