The latest additions to the Heap of Links…

1. Interested in learning about the use of corpus methods (statistical analyses of textual data) in philosophy? — attend a Zoom event about it that starts next week, put on by the Australasian Experimental Philosophy Group
2. The philosophy faculty at William Paterson University thank their students for hanging in there this term — and talk about the value of philosophy and why they chose to go into it
3. “We are embodied beings, not streams of consciousnes” — Kieran Setiya (MIT) thinks our experiences with Zoom contain lessons for us about personal identity
4. “Sometimes, fairness can demand that we act stupid, even when we’re not” — Stephen John (Cambridge) on autonomy, expertise, and the lockdown rules
5. A new blog on the philosophy of philosophy — from Tomasz Herok, a PhD student at Lancaster University
6. “Armchair Opinions” is a new ask-a-philosopher type Facebook page — it takes questions from the public and provides responses from philosopher-volunteers
7. Hi-Phi Nation’s Season 4 has started — Barry Lam (Vassar) focused his popular philosophy podcast on issues related to crime and punishment for the season

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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