New additions to the Heap of Links…
Discussion welcome.
- “Philosophy saved my life at 22 by giving me a way out of a life that would have killed me sooner rather than later. And philosophy saved me again, just the other day…” — an interview with Shay Welch (Spelman)
- There are “areas of science where an ‘exactitude culture’ is too dominant” — three “cultures” of science and the case for “scientific transculturalism”
- Elizabeth Harman (Princeton) gave the 2024 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford — here are videos of and handouts for the three-part lecture series, entitled “Love and Abortion”
- “To American sensibilities, the fact that the head of state was speaking at an eighteenth-century philosopher’s birthday party was already extraordinary. Why shouldn’t there be drag for good measure?” — report from Kant’s tricentennial birthday celebration in Berlin
- How should we interpret neuroscience for the purposes of doing philosophy of mind? — a symposium at The Brains Blog on “The Brain Abstracted” by Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh)
- “The practice of suspending students before arresting them attests to the fact that students do have a right to assemble on campus… The message from administrators is clear: You will lose your status as a student if you exercise the rights that belong to you as students” — Judith Butler (Berkeley) and George Yancy (Emory) on the protests
- “While the novel is certainly illuminating in its grasp of social history, it goes much further, offering an enlightening perspective on the philosophy of history as well” — a new historical novel is a “creative retelling of al-Ghazali’s life story”
