Latest links…
- “A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them” — “I’m in an unusual position relative to these questions,” said one of the agents to a philosopher, in an unsolicited email
- The philosophy of good sex — Quill Kukla on Adam Conover’s show
- Philotypes is an online swipe game based on the problems asked about on the 2020 PhilPapers survey — survive by keeping your “humours” in balance. Created by Nat Hansen.
- How to save the sciences in the United States — Zeynep Pamuk, with responses from from Heather Douglas, James Owen Weatherall, and others
- It’s incoherent, opposes the truth, undermines standards, stifles academic freedom… — Lisa Siraganian offers “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity”
- New solution to the trolley problem
- “It may be that Dolly can do more to explain the philosophers than the other way around” — Mary Townsend on how Dolly Parton “confounds and yet fulfills Aristotle’s ideal in more ways than one”
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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