Mini-Heap
The latest Mini-Heap is here.
- “We even have contemporaneous accounts suggesting Socrates doxxed his opponents, posting their addresses all over the Acropolis and inciting his followers to harass them.” — The Onion reports on some newly discovered Socratic dialogues
- A course in 20th Century Analytic Philosophy that’s all about women philosophers — some suggestions for what to include, from Paul Franco (Washington)
- The anti-semitism of the great philosophers — Laurie Shrage (Florida International) on its significance for understanding and teaching the history of philosophy
- “Who could possibly have the gall to tell the entire human race what it should and should not feel? Philosophers, that’s who!” — Agnes Callard (Chicago) polices hatred
- “If you want to judge the quality of a food culture, don’t look at its finest restaurants and best food. Look to its low-end.” — C. Thi Nguyen (Utah Valley) presents a “Rawlsian Theory of Food Culture”
- How scientists are using some work of Thoreau’s to observe the effects of climate change — specifically on wildflowers
- “Today I’m overcome with astonishment / At the way we girls denied all that was mean / In those revered philosophers we studied; / Who found us loathsome, loathsomely seductive; / Irrelevant, at best, to noble discourse” — “The Erotic Philosophers,” a poem by Carolyn Kizer (1998)
Mini-Heap posts appear when 7 or so 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!
The Onion! *snicker*