Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap…
- The new bioethics, continued: “Our proof of concept thus highlights how a nonhuman autonomous creator of a deadly chemical weapon is entirely feasible” — a company that uses AI to improve human health was asked to explore the risk of misuse of their methods. Result: in less than 6 hours they generated 40,000 different deadly molecules
- “Hope is needed most exactly when the world looks hopeless” — Lea Ypi (LSE) on hope, humanity, Russia, Ukraine, and what can be learned from Kant’s Perpetual Peace
- “Larger, Freer, More Loving,” the podcast from Matthew J. LaVine (Potsdam) and Dwight K. Lewis (Minnesota), returns with a new season — the first episode focuses on emotion, race, and justice, and features Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside)
- “If philosophers refuse to use books simply because they include philosophical views that we dislike or disagree with, then we would be failing to live up to our professional standards” — Raja Halwani, the editor of an anthology on the philosophy of sex, responds to criticisms of his decision to include an essay by Kathleen Stock in the volume
- “Part of the gift of forgiveness, and what can be powerful about it, is that seeing another in this hopeful way… creates a space in which there is a possibility for them to face their flaws without needing defensive denial” — Lucy Allais (JHU) interviewed at Vox about forgiveness
- What are the implications for reactive-attitudes-based accounts of moral responsibility of taking our ordinary reactive attitudes to be the products of structurally unjust social conditions and practices? — “radical” work by Michelle Ciurria (University of Missouri-St. Louis) is the subject of a symposium with comments so far from John Doris (Cornell) and others, soon
- “Refugees need more political autonomy, not less, and third parties – host states, civil society and international NGOs – should enable rather than inhibit the vital roles that refugees play in their home countries” — Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s) explains why
Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a 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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