Mini-Heap
Links of possible interest to those interested in philosophy…
- “Students are somewhat less accustomed to speaking up or challenging received wisdom, and less comfortable pushing ‘why’ questions” — Natalja Deng (Yonsei University) on what it’s like to work as a philosopher in South Korea
- “The idea of ‘cultural appropriation’ is directly antithetical to all the work that cross-cultural philosophers have done so hard to get accepted” — cultural appropriation is objectionable only “when a culture’s ability to use a cultural product is actually taken away from it,” argues Amod Lele (Boston University)
- “True diversification of the field will ultimately require aesthetic integration, the blending of more than one aesthetic approach to create something new that appeals to a diverse constituency” — Chris Jenkins (Oberlin) on classical music, aesthetics, and race
- Epoché, a monthly philosophy magazine, has a new website — while you’re there, check out the Index page, a book-like index to their entire run
- “Calling all philosophers!… The superhero we need, in a divided America, is someone who can prove to us what’s real and what isn’t” — a writer interviews several philosophers for a newpaper column on the nature and importance of reality
- Puzzles in chemistry, and how philosophy helps solve them — a modest shout-out to philosophy at Chemistry World
- Jesus saves. But what saves Jesus? One answer: non-classical logic — Jc Beall (Notre Dame) in a brief introductory video on the reasons for (against?) adopting non-classical logic
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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