Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap…

Discussion welcome.

1. “The experience of time passing is ultimately immeasurable and resists explanation in terms of anything else” — Evan Thompson (UBC) on what can be learned from the debate between Einstein and Bergson over time
2. “Familial care work needs financial support… professional care workers need fair labor conditions” — Serene Khader (CUNY) on “a deep vision of racial, gender and economic equality that has often been lacking in mainstream feminism”
3. “Milgram’s work and conclusions still stand” — Laura Niemi (Cornell), Edouard Machery (Pitt), & John Doris (Cornell) on the soundness of Milgram’s obedience experiments & their implications
4. “Being able to act [with] ambivalence is actually really important to our agency,” including in sexual contexts — Quill Kukla (Georgetown) interviewed by Kate Greasley (Oxford) on sexual consent in a non-ideal world
5. “A belief has come to dominate theoretical physics that even nothingness ought to come from something — that space-time must break up into more primitive building blocks that don’t themselves inhabit space or time” — a well done set of articles, visualizations, videos, etc., on “the unraveling of space-time”
6. To AI: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems — worried about students using AI tools to cheat? Here’s an AI-powered bot that can administer them all “Socratic” oral exams
7. “Build for Us” — the latest single from the new EP by Femi and the Foundation, that is, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown)

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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