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- “One thing I believe in, to the bottom of my heart, is that we should elect more scientists to the US Congress” — Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) is interviewed about her work and politics in The Nation
- On the Cofnas paper, “the latest entry into the jam-tomorrow-never-jam-today of RDI [Race Difference in Intelligence]” research — John Jackson (Michigan State) on how RDI research “was never about pure science,” but embedded in an “ugly history” of racist social policy
- “Heroism is aspirational, and worthy of admiration, but it is a pedagogical, moral and historical error to spend our moral capital insisting on it” — It is enough to refrain from welcoming and helping with the oppression and murder, argues Rivka Weinberg (Scripps) in the NYT
- An intellectual history of culinary philosophies and a sketch of a food ethos for today — “there was never a golden age”, says Rachel Laudan
- A woman pretending to be Alan Turing daughter’s stole his doctoral degree, a medal of his, and other pieces of memorabilia from an archive in England in 1984 — Federal officials just announced that she was caught (2 years ago), and the materials recovered, in Boulder, Colorado
- A former philosophy professor keeps a journal during the zombie apocalypse — that’s the central element in the new “ethical guidebook” from Bryan Hall (Regis), subtitled, “how to keep your brain without losing your heart”
- The “Twitter presidency” versus democracy — Boris Litvin (Stetson) on Rousseau on Trump on Twitter
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. Discussion welcome.
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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