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1. “What if Kafka’s dog were a fellow traveler of the German Idealists, even their most faithful companion: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Hölderlin, Schelling, and a woolly, unnamed hound?” — reflections on Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog”, from Aaron Schuster
2. “What Is Racism?” — the Berggruen Prize Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU)
3. Does it matter if conservatives are rare in academia? — a forum at the Chronicle of Higher Education featuring several scholars, including a couple of philosophers
4. The collected works of Mahatma Gandhi — 100 volumes, online and free (via Jonathan Birch)
5. It “demonstrates the limits of our mathematical intuition, and the counterintuitive nature of probabilistic reasoning” — the public probability puzzles project of Daniel Litt (Toronto)
6. What are “beats” in poetic meter? Are there such things? — some philosophy of poetry with Brad Skow (MIT)
7. “Across all four-year colleges in the United States, the most commonly awarded grade is now an A” — Yascha Mounk (JHU) on why grade inflation is a problem and why switching to a pass/fail system for all courses may be the solution

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