Mini-Heap

New links…

1. “Any sign of struggle on my part seemed to be taken as evidence that, perhaps, I was not cut out for intellectual life and did not care enough about philosophy” — an interview with Vanessa Wills
2. King Lawrence the Lion and Maple the Meerkat navigate tricky philosophical questions in a new BBC series for kids — “Fantastic Philosophy” is narrated by Stephen Fry
3. “You can leave the country and stay with the struggle or stay in the country and not participate in the struggle, and to be blunt, the majority of people in the US are not participating” — Rebecca Solnit enters the debate over academics leaving the US
4. “Wealth concentration has fallen—not risen—over the past century… The dominant quantitative fact of the century is… a dramatic wealth equalization propelled by mass asset ownership” — an economist on the risks of “misreading inequality”
5. “‘A philosopher!’ said the doctor; ‘Can yon screw your head off and on.’ ‘No, sir’ I said. ‘Oh, then, you are no philosopher.’” — Jeremy Bentham is “interviewed” by Richard Marshall
6. “Nihilism” is the word of the week at NPR — owing to the bombing of a fertility clinic in California
7. “I became more and more interested in the role probability plays in thinking about… how strong something is as a reason for believing something else” — Brandon Fitelson and Sean Carroll discuss probability

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so 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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