Mini-Heap
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- “Vengeful approaches [to politics] deny others the capacities for moral learning… foreclose unanticipated forms of reconciliation and community, and judge, a priori, the life horizons of others based on their worst transgressions”— Yet at the same time we must engage in “unyielding confrontation in pursuit of the greater goods of a more just world”. Brandon Terry (Harvard) on what to learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, race, power, and how art can transform society— Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) on the BBC radio’s “Start the Week” (at around the 11:30 mark)
- “The right question to ask is: what can I do without an arbitrary deadline that I could not do with one?”— Lawrence Solum (Georgetown) with some advice for post-tenure life (via Elizabeth Cohen)
- To beard or not to beard? — Henry Pratt (Marist) takes up philosophical questions about facial hair
- “The top people in our discipline are such a bunch of delusional narcissists”— Dan Kaufman (Missouri State) and Oliver Traldi (Notre Dame) discuss the philosophy profession
- The circular reasoning at the heart of the fable of the ant and the grasshopper— elucidated by Stephen White (Northwestern)
- “We should see one important social function of practical ethicists as widening the Overton window”— Rebecca Brown (Oxford) explains
Mini-Heap posts appear when about 7 new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the ever-growing 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. Thanks!
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