Mini-Heap
New links…
- New: a Twitter “Community” for philosophy — Twitter’s interest-based “communities” allow you the option of tweeting just to others in the community
- “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”
- 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
- “The beautiful soul is where affections and reason are harmonized through play” — Richard Marshall “interviews” Friedrich Schiller
- “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
- “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
- 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.
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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