Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap of Links…
- When is the conjunction fallacy not really a fallacy? — to answer this, keep in mind there’s sometimes a tradeoff between being “accurate” and being “informative”, says Kevin Dorst & Matt Mandelkern (Oxford)
- “Games are a part of an under-respected, and under-theorized, category of art — what I call the arts of action” — C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) on the philosophy of games
- Even when we’ve “engaged seriously with the other side’s arguments… we make mistakes that we can’t correct by sincere engagement with opposing viewpoints” — “I think this happens a lot in philosophy,” says David Christensen (Brown) in an interview all about disagreement
- “Anyone with Hume’s intelligence would recognise the enormity of slavery. But Hume sought to benefit from it.” — Felix Waldmann (Cambridge) on Hume’s connections to slavery
- How can mathematics inform philosophical inquiries? — Silvia Jonas (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) takes up that question and others
- Philosophers in non-academic careers — a new series at the Blog of the APA
- “How do we respond to linguistic and stylistic diversity?” — Martin Lenz (Groningen) on language, diversity, and teaching
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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