Mini-Heap
New links of interest to those interested in philosophy…
- “I’m willing to engage—usually, and unless people are just trolling or monstering or gaslighting or sealioning me—because that’s what philosophers do: they replace conflict with dialogue” — Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University) interviewed by Jean Kazez (SMU)
- “Dear Miss Arendt…” — a 1975 note from Joe Biden to Hannah Arendt (via @Helenreflects on Twitter)
- “The data support something that could be referred to as rationalist pessimism: rationality is real, but rare” — Hanno Sauer (Utrecht) argues that attacks on human rationality from social psychology and behavioral economics aren’t as devastating as some believe
- A discussion of quantum spacetime, “the idea that our familiar spacetime might be actually emergent from some complex quantum mechanical system” — with Sean Carroll (Caltech) and Siddharth Muthukrishnan (Pitt), on “Natural Philosophers”
- Epistemic corruption by YouTube algorithm — Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld) on autoplay, conspiratorial content, bottom-up seduction, and a murder
- 20 philosophers on the pandemic — in the new—and open access—issue of The Philosophers’ Magazine
- “In the current activities of police and law enforcement, we can see the seeds of the response to climate crises” — Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) explains
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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