New additions to the Heap…

1. “The careless adage that Plato banished poetry should itself be banished” — Elaine Scarry makes the case, and argues that though “philosophy and poetry are distinct inventions… each suffers by keeping the other at arm’s length”
2. The “Why Philosophy?” interviews are back — Céline Leboeuf has interviewed Olivia Sun and Eric Schwitzgebel recently
3. “Our goal is not simply to make more common knowledge. Instead… we proceed cautiously, admitting one thing and hiding another in order to carefully manage our affiliations” — a different kind of social epistemology? Joshua Rothman on Steven Pinker
4. Over two dozen video interviews about disagreeing well — by Emma Lee, a recent high school graduate who has now partnered with The Philosophy Foundation to develop resources for teaching disagreement in schools
5. In 2021, Russ Shafer-Landau delivered an APA Presidential address that took the form of 20 questions in moral philosophy — he’s puzzled by them, he says, but optimistic that we can get closer to resolving them
6. “It may be really hard—if not impossible—to separate ‘what brains do from what they are’, and yet still accept that what they do is, in fact, compute” — Felipe De Brigard on computational complexity and consciousness
7. Funding for your Philosophy, Politics, and Economics project — Geoff Sayre-McCord hosts a webinar this Wednesday (today) on PPE grants from $10,000 to $150,000

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