Mini-Heap
The latest additions to the Heap of Links…
(And yes, the Heap is back up and running again!)
- How many people COVID-19 has killed seems like a straightforward empirical question — but it’s not, as philosopher S. Andrew Schroeder (Claremont McKenna) explains
- “Philosophical advances in epistemology and in ethics profoundly shape our points of view. We don’t see them precisely because we see with them” — an interview with philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- What is a particle? — ask a dozen physicists, you’ll get seven different answers
- The British Journal of Aesthetics is celebrating its 60th anniversary — with 12 short pieces that each look back on a different article the journal previously published, together offering a history of aesthetics over the past several decades
- A conversation about hope — with Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside), Sally Haslanger (MIT), and Jesse Prinz (CUNY)
- “What makes the invocation of lived experience such a powerful move – the fact that it’s essentially private, removed from inspection – is exactly what makes it such a perilous one” — Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) on how “identities are too multiple and complex to allow any individual’s experience to count as truly representative”
- “The first thing the police had done was call in M’s three colleagues to see if they knew of anyone who might have a grudge against M. It was hence a great surprise when this somewhat routine procedure generated not leads but confessions—three of them” — “Philosophy Rashômon,” by Liam Bright (LSE)
Mini-Heap posts usually 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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Checking out this site 3:16 right now. Can’t believe this Plato at the Googleplex book hadn’t made my to read list