Mini-Heap: recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.
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- “What if you had the opportunity to become a vampire, irreversibly—and everyone you knew who had become one said ‘It’s utterly indescribable’” — how should you decide? L.A. Paul (UNC) talks with Julia Galef at Rationally Speaking
- “The reality of the psychological is one of the most important lessons of fMRI studies of the brain” — Tim Crane (Cambridge) on understanding consciousness and “how we can be”
- “This is making my brain all tingly, like that time I put Pop Rocks on a q-tip” — the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt becomes a philosophy student in the show’s 3rd season
- “You don’t defeat a slippery slope by jumping off the cliff and taking the shortcut to the bottom” — Hayek’s problem with socialism was that it eventually empowers the “ruthless, lawless authoritarians of the right,” argues Jacob Levy (McGill)
- How to turn children into “bullshit detectors” — the experimental work of Andy Oxman (via Timothy O’Keefe)
- “I could run… [but] not this time… I’m really good at explaining complicated fuckery” — Rachel McKinnon (Charleston) describes and responds to online harassment she has been subject to
- Pluralism without fragmentation — Michael P. Wolf (Washington & Jefferson) on Sellars on normativity
- Sometimes, when we swear, “it’s just incidental that we’re expressing ourselves using language at all” — an interview on cursing with Rebecca Roache (Royal Holloway)
- Interviews with philosophers, centered around their reading — Luciano Floridi, David Papineau, Massimo Pigliucci, Angie Hobbs, and others
- “Far more is at stake… than the fate of an excellent philosophy program and the lives of its students and faculty” — Jennifer Frey (South Carolina) on recent threats to tenure
