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1. The owl problem: how many Barred Owls may be killed, if any, to save the Northern Spotted Owl? — Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark) discusses the matter on NPR’s “On Point”
2. “Stebbing… suggests a project for analytic moral and political philosophy very different from what developed in post WWII era which often abstracted away from such richly empirically embedded social theory” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on the moral philosophy Susan Stebbing
3. Arguments against censoriousness shouldn’t depend on the idea that “knowledge requires ‘attempted debunking’” — Brad Skow (MIT) on a popular kind of argument for freedom of expression
4. “Technology addiction has affected students’ general agency when interacting with information” — Megan Fritts (Arkansas Little Rock) is the featured in an article on students and LLMs after a tweet of hers about the topic went viral
5. “His interminable questioning, his striving for the truth, and his exposure of others’ hypocrisy had to be unquestionably political, or else, why would he be tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by the state?” — Joel Christensen (Brandeis) on Socrates and complaints about the politicization of higher ed
6. “Some of my classmates in the PhD program… would tell me that I was getting A’s while they were getting B’s because, as one of the only women in the program, it wouldn’t look good if I were to fail” — Carol Hay (UMass Lowell) on her path into philosophy (at first-genphilosophers)
7. “We should take awkwardness less personally, and more seriously” — Alexandra Plakias (Hamilton) explains why

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.

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