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- How much time does it take you, typically, to referee a paper (not how long it takes between agreeing to referee and submitting the report; just the actual time spent refereeing)? — share your responses at the Cocoon
- “A path to get college credit that begins on a YouTube video” — does this new collaboration with Arizona State University represent the future of universities, or portend their demise?
- “His most significant contribution is his argument that everything is ultimately made of water. It has made a big splash” — a tenure letter for Thales, by Brad Skow (MIT)
- The Gradient covers a wide range of issues regarding artificial intelligence — recent articles have concerned AI epistemology, the punishment of robots, and the connection between understanding and making the “right mistakes”
- “The synthetic creative factor of our knowledge extends… into the very first sense-impressions and even into the elements of logic” — Friedrich Lange is “interviewed” about his neo-Kantianism, the significance of materialism, and other philosophers, at 3:16AM
- “Far from being a fusty academic discipline with no relevance to the ‘real’ world, philosophy was, for him, an existential matter of immediate importance” — the case for a biography of Bryan Magee
- Voters “should expect that an effective candidate will be imperfectly honest at best” — but liars like George Santos, who are “unlikely to be believed” are “incapable of achieving those goods that justify their deception” says Michael Blake (Washington)
Discussion welcome.
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.
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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