Mini-Heap


New additions to the Heap of Links…

  1. “The same openness that enables health authorities to innovate with Bluetooth data will also permit everyone from advertisers to police to immigration officers to do the same unless new privacy laws are enacted to stop them” — concerns about the plans of Google and Apple to help with COVID-19 contact tracing, from Evan Selinger (RIT) and Albert Fox Cahn
  2. The Journal of Controversial Ideas now has a website — edited by Jeff McMahan (Oxford), Francesca Minerva, and Peter Singer (Princeton), it is now accepting submissions (previous discussions of the Journal)
  3. 9 questions about the pandemic, political philosophy, policy, and more, addressed by 9 different philosophers — at the Justice Everywhere blog
  4. Would you choose to live forever? — a recording of a webinar with John Martin Fischer (UCR)
  5. In situations of despair and tragedy perhaps the best we could hope for is “accompaniment” — Nicholaos Jones (Alabama, Huntsville) reflects on the importance of “enriching, and making manifest the value of, the other’s efforts”
  6. The philosophy on Pete Buttigieg’s bookshelf — Dworkin, Korsgaard, Rawls, Raz, and more (via Bruno Leipold)
  7. Refraining from the “weaponization of contemporary analytic philosophy” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) draws some lessons from Seneca

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.

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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