Recent additions to the Heap of Links…
- How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — “If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance,” says Carissa Véliz
- “I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
- The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers’ version of the concept is
- 1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
- Where Aristotle taught Alexander — “this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education”
- Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
- Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
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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