Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap…
Discussion welcome.
- “Limiting virtues [are] virtues that constrain us in order to set us free” — Sara Hendren (Northeastern), inspired by David McPherson (Creighton) looks for limiting virtues in architecture
- “It is not only false but morally misleading to describe the resulting civilian deaths as ‘unintentional’ or as what ‘happens in war’” — Jessica Wolfendale (Case Western) on the tools and tactics used in Gaza by Israel’s military
- “Both were analytical philosophers, but their intellectual frameworks and their philosophical approaches were markedly different” — Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on Popper and Parfit
- “Take the concept, stand-up comedy”—please — Kieran Setiya (MIT) on defining stand-up
- El Salvador seeks philosophers (and doctors, scientists, engineers, artists, and others) — the nation’s president has offered 5000 free passports along with tax benefits to those answering his call
- “He has awakened us to the background practices in our culture, and revealed to us that they have no necessity, which offers us a kind of freedom we may not have recognized” — Mark Ralkowski (GWU) on the philosophy of Larry David
- “I think [NASA’s] requirements are closing the astronaut program off from important insights from the humanities and social sciences” — a philosophy PhD and US Air Force officer on why we should send philosophers into space
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. Thank you.
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