New links…

1. New: a Twitter “Community” for philosophy — Twitter’s interest-based “communities” allow you the option of tweeting just to others in the community
2. “We should distinguish creativity as we ascribe it to products from creativity as we ascribe it to processes. Value, however, is a core part of creativity, both of the product and of the process” — Julia Langkau (Geneva) on types of creativity and their value, and how “psychology is so far ahead of philosophy concerning research on creativity”
3. How to “level the playing field so that less-overconfident students can gain some of the same advantages” — Eric Schwitzgebel (Riverside) follows up on the “overconfident student strategy” with advice for teachers and students
4. “The beautiful soul is where affections and reason are harmonized through play” — Richard Marshall “interviews” Friedrich Schiller
5. “His students at the LSE jokingly referred to his book as ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies, written by one of its enemies’” — Tae-Yeoun Keum (UCSB) on how Karl Popper’s career was elevated by “bashing Plato,” and what this tells us about philosophy
6. “We all know that we do things against our own better judgment… Do we also believe things against our own better judgment?” — Eugene Chislenko (Temple) on akratic beliefs
7. How did you end up majoring in philosophy? — N.G. Laskowski (Cal State Long Beach) asks Twitter

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.

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