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1. “A great deal of my work has aimed to reveal the tensions between different forms of reasoning. Ultimately, all I have written can be considered as part of a history of human rationality.” — Lorraine Daston interviewed by Luca Sciortino
2. “The more vigorously you try to control immigration, the more you end up limiting the freedom of your citizens and violating equality and the rule of law” — Chandran Kukathas on immigration, rule of law, and liberty
3. While “it remains true that our hit rate is low and our progress measured in geological time, still we are cheap and cheerful enough to be worth it. Philosophy grad school is, dare I say it, one of the better investments one can make, seen sub specie aeternitatis” — a dialogue by Liam Kofi Bright
4. Could we construct “a serious, scientific measure of a person’s total moral goodness or badness: that is, a ‘moralometer’?” — there are “massive conceptual and methodological challenges” argue Eric Schwitzgebel & Jessie Sun
5. “A lot is going on to… advance philosophy for children in the world, except for children in Africa” — Leo Igwe discusses the situation and why it’s a problem
6. “The capacity of silences to be awkward or comfortable is set against our efforts to connect with and understand other people, to be seen by others in the way we wish to be seen, and to be accepted” — Rebecca Roache on what makes awkward silences awkward
7. “We are learning to doubt and to question and to criticize. And, make no mistake, it is precisely this skill that is powerful and is being attacked” — the undergraduate speaker at Northwestern’s commencement was philosophy major Clary Doyle, whose speech was reprinted in WaPo (link is to video)

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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