Mid-week Mini-Heap.

1. Tim Crane, Jane Heal, Tom Baldwin, Alva Noë, Helen Steward… — recent interviewees at the “Five Questions” podcast by Kieran Setiya (MIT)
2. Environmental & social scaffolding for overcoming procrastination — the start of the school year is a good time to revisit this useful piece by Joseph Heath and Joel Anderson
3. “I don’t claim to have a priori knowledge about the extent to which people should or shouldn’t rely on cancellation” — interesting thoughts from Irfan Khawaja about cancel culture, discussion of which, he says, “strikes me as time-bound polemics masquerading as moral philosophy”
4. “I started Corrupt the Youth so they don’t have to play catch up like I did” — a moving profile of Briana Toole (Claremont McKenna) and her work teaching philosophy to high school students from low-income or underrepresented groups
5. CNN interviews philosopher about fascism — Jason Stanley (Yale) warns about “massive use of fascist tactics”
6. What kind of achievement is it to give birth? — Fiona Woollard (Southampton) guides us between the mistakes of idolization and invisibility
7. The almost impossible chessboard puzzle — a math-obsessed warden makes an offer to two prisoners…

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!