Mini-Heap

Links to things of interest to people interested in philosophy…

1. “There is a need for a discipline that stands to epistemology as chemical engineering stands to chemistry” — it’s not applied epistemology, nor social epistemology, says Noah Gordon, but “practical epistemology”
2. The partner of a philosopher provides anthropological observations of and advice about philosophers for others in their position — here’s a sample from the late (2011-2012) lamented “Philosiology” (which Fiona Woollard reminded me of)
3. “Overall the accusations of large-scale Antisemitism [on U.S. college campuses] are best understood as gaslighting” — Mathias Risse explains why
4. Did the reactions to Newton change something about the way philosophy was practiced? Do they explain the split between physics and philosophy? — Eric Schliesser on why it matters to include Newton in the history of philosophy
5. “A newly fertilized human egg isn’t conscious, and a preschooler is, so consciousness must emerge somewhere in between” — When? And how do we figure that out? Findings discussed at a conference at NYU organized by Claudia Passos-Ferreira
6. Should we have the contents of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy carved in stone? — someone is trying to start a project to do this for Wikipedia
7. The epistemic challenges of “slopaganda” — Michał Klincewicz, Mark Alfano, & Amir Ebrahimi Fard on the manipulative powers of the increasing amount of generative AI slop on the internet

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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