Another Mini-Heap
Yet more for the Heap…
- M. C. Hammer named inaugural winner of the American Philosophical Association’s “Celebrity Philosopher of the Year” Award — The award includes a $100 prize
- “Some examined lives also not worth living” — a new finding in experimental philosophy
- New ranking of philosophy graduate programs by total number of Twitter followers their faculty have — It is now the most influential ranking of philosophy graduate programs, according to Twitter.
- A manuscript of a previously unknown dialogue by Plato was discovered among a collection of artifacts in Greece — Set just after The Phaedo, the dialogue features Euthyphro complaining of the time Socrates “canceled” him
- “Why I Am Leaving Philosophy” — a young philosopher explains her decision: “basically, I just wanted to be able to make a decent living and choose where to live — you know, normal stuff like that”
- Trolley manufacturer announces lawsuit — Oxford Review, the Foot estate, and others are among those accused of defamation
- Editors of established philosophy journals report a recent increase in average quality of submissions — trend correlated with first call for papers from The Journal of Controversial Ideas.
Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. Discussion welcome.
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The links to these items in the mini-heap aren’t working unfortunately!
Check the date
Someone else had this problem and said that if you share the post on social media the links become active. Very strange. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hmm – very odd, links still not working. I was really interested to read the post about the person leaving academia. Any chance you could post a link to it here?
Never mind — I now realise I am a fool and that there are no links because all the stories are fake/joke.
That’s cold! Insult to injury. But as a fan of a well-played April Fools’ joke, no complaints.
How do you click through to see the specific articles? Nothing happens when clicking on the title of a story. Thanks, John Companiotte
I’m so mad that it took me 6 articles to realize that this was an April’s fool, and I’m even more mad because I truly believed a new dialogue was discovered.
I could say I was excited 🤧
Please send a link on how to find out more about the newly-discovered Plato dialogue. Google didn’t turn it up.
Michael Gregory – http://www.michaelgregory.org
For anyone wondering: Click here to access the links. This leads to the “http” instead of the “https” version of this webpage where the links are active.
That’s not the Plato dialogue you link to, actually, but a very sensitive and insightful discussion of eternal non-occurrence by the less well-known philosopher Kyricatles.
April fool’s!?
This document explains why you might having difficulties with the post
Thanks, Sergio! Good thing this doesn’t happen all the time, eh?
What if everyone… wait, never mind.