Recent additions to the Heap of Links…
Discussion welcome.
- “In the 19th century [liberalism] was an aspirational doctrine for living well, but in the 20th and 21st century it retreated to a much more staid legal and political project.” Why? — Alexandre Lefebvre (Sydney) on the “ethical guts” of liberalism
- Students need both “appreciation for the difficulty of [philosophical] questions” and “conviction that they themselves might find an answer worth defending” — Gina Schouten (Harvard) on assigning problem sets of philosophy puzzles
- “The hidden curriculum of higher education—the unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons… that students learn in school… began to reveal itself to me” — Nadia Ruiz (Leibniz University of Hannover) shares her route into philosophy
- “Right-wing packaging should not obscure the genuine perils to which pronatalism is a response” — Victor Kumar (Boston) on population decline and why it is a progressive issue
- “He approached his writing much like he lived his life: unconventionally” — a brief film on Richard Wollheim, his views on expressing emotion in painting, and his theory of complex projection, by Vanessa Brassey (KCL)
- Hegelian e-girls — that’s a thing now
- “Every now and again (thankfully rarely) I see people advocate for something like affirmative action but for citations. I think this is an awful idea” — Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) comments on the SEP citation rankings
Following up on Liam’s remark, I was recently asked to include citations to hitherto neglected academics in an invited piece I was writing for a Handbook. I did it earnestly … citing some neglected Latin American scholars (one’s working in Latin America, and thus not on the radar of the mainstream in N. America). Then, the editors removed the part of my contribution discussing their work … and of course the refrences to their work. go figure …