New in the Heap of Links…

1. “Current academic philosophers are losing rather dramatically in the fight for intellectual influence” — Tyler Cowen recommends “AI practitioners and the Bay Area obsessives” over philosophers
2. “I don’t do philosophy for the sake of doing philosophy” — Haiyan Lee on her “stultifying education” under Mao, nearly failing a philosophy course, Sellars, and fiction
3. “Ever wondered what it’s like to be a rock?” — a new game, “Stone Simulator” lets you “live as a rock,” whatever that means. No I haven’t played it. (via Kottke)
4. A song whose lyrics are the names of the valid modes of the Aristotelian Syllogism — in Latin, of course (via Andrew Mills) (an explanation of the terms in the lyrics)
5. “It would be unfair… to conflate the entire field of self-help philosophy with the vacuousness of pop-Stoicism” — an historian surveys the philosophical self-help trend
6. On which cases do philosophers and the folk share intuitions, and on which do they differ? — a brief survey of results from empirical research on the topic, in an interview with Edouard Machery
7. Do philosophers read enough? Do they think enough about reading? Do they teach enough about how to read? — Martin Lenz thinks we should care more about reading

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several 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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