Links of interest…
- “I’ve had to accommodate the commuters and parents in this department for the past ten years. I did not chose to live two hours away, and I did not chose to have children” — Barry Lam imagines (recounts?) a faculty meeting in which the teaching schedule is fixed
- “‘The campus is not a bad place for a poet to work. It’s just a bad place for all poets to work.’ Might the same be true of philosophers?” — Kieran Setiya on Dana Gioia on poetry and philosophy
- An appreciation of the librarians of Duke University’s Project Vox, which “seeks to highlight philosophical works from marginalized individuals traditionally excluded from the philosophical canon” — they lost their jobs as a result of the university’s recent “realignment”
- Responsibility for extreme beliefs — Anne Schwenkenbecher talks with David Rutledge on Australian radio
- “Imagine Diogenes at a conference designed to bring ‘diverse viewpoints’ together” — Hollis Robbins on what the “feral ethics” of Diogenes tells us about today’s penchant for “carefully curated heterodoxy”
- Julia Wedgwood lived from 1833 to 1913, and is the author of the book, The Moral Ideal, as well as over 100 journal articles — check out the new site about her and her work created by Alison Stone (including her “recommendations” page)
- “If we are prepared to say that human beings – as composite systems consisting of seemingly mindless building blocks – have free will, then we must also accept that the underlying mechanical make-up of an AI system does not by itself rule out free will in such a system” — Christian List on what it would take for an AI to have free will
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Trivia, not in the sense of being of little importance, but rather as something perhaps not well known, Wittgenstein: The person and the philosopher.