Mini-Heap
Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected and numbered for your convenience.
As usual, if you have suggestions for the Heap, please send ’em in.
- Mathematicians measure infinities — and find they’re equal
- The Illusions Index — a resource for deceiving your senses (via Umut Baysan)
- Emerita Quito, “the Philippines’ greatest female philosopher,” has died — she wrote over 20 books and was “a trailblazing scholar, a prolific writer, and a sought-after lecturer”
- The Bertrand Russell archive at McMaster University will have a new home — “the archive is the largest available on Russell anywhere”
- The Eagles’ Don Henley and filmmaker Ken Burns are Thoreau fans — and Burns has made a short film about the philosopher
- “It’s time that faculty members honored the work that graduate students do by actually scrutinizing it—as opposed to demanding that they produce more and more of it” — CHE picks up on Velleman’s publication proposal
- The University of Colorado just bought $47,000 worth of merchandise from a former philosophy professor it tried to fire — David Barnett’s PopSockets are just that good
- “Gavagai” — an “extraordinary movie” — but it’s unclear what its message is
- Philosophy Talk, the radio show, names new hosts — John Perry will become “host emeritus”
- “We avoid the interference available to our digital providers only insofar as they are willing to be indulgent” — Philip Pettit (Princeton/ANU) on online freedom
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