Recent added links…
- “The canoe was under attack, the crocodile in full pursuit!” — read about why philosopher Val Plumwood’s canoe is part of the collection at the National Museum of Australia (via Andrew Mills)
- “Much of my career has been devoted to teaching and writing about Aristotle’s Ethics, but it was not love at first sight” — Richard Kraut’s 2020 Dewey Lecture, “How I Am an Aristotelian”
- Do cells have memory? And what is memory, anyway? — new developments in the study of brainless memory
- “The benefits of edtech are often overstated… [and] its use in the classroom comes with drawbacks” — Anna Lukina on her “tech-free teaching”
- “The real fundamental issue is change… [How] do you create leagues of Black thinkers and clinicians and doctors and engineers and artists that fill the gap [created] by what white people engineered for centuries?” — Edinburgh’s first black philosophy professor, Tommy Curry, is featured in a Guardian article about the university’s new report on its racist past
- If you like the NYT’s “Connections” puzzle and you like philosophy — then you should try “Family Resemblances” by Ian Schnee (and if you have ideas for new clues, email them to him)
- “You can hold yourself to an image of yourself, the image that… is embedded in these commitments you make to yourself. And that, I think, is becoming something like a person” — Philip Pettit in conversation with Sean Carroll
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