Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap of Links…
- “Infectious diseases don’t just spread or disappear. They also evolve.” — Elliott Sober (Wisconsin) on understanding and modeling virulence
- Racism and protest during a global pandemic — an online discussion with Elena Comay del Junco (Toronto) and Yolonda Yvette Wilson (National Humanities Center) this coming Wednesday
- “We stand committed to continued examination of the ways in which racism, economic, and institutional violence mar our society” — a statement from the President, Vice-President, and Officers of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
- “Anonymization provides something like the Ring of Gyges to commentators, with predictable results.” — what is a wise commenting policy for philosophy blogs?
- “Let’s give some love to the philosophers” — several philosophers are named as “especially good on America’s racial politics” in a NYT interview with sociologist and writer Michael Eric Dyson (Georgetown)
- “If we centralize training in fewer departments, we will become far more homogeneous” — one of several reasons against eliminating PhD programs in philosophy, from Kevin Zollman (CMU)
- Philosophy as “the original ‘talk therapy'”” — Samir Chopra (Brooklyn College/CUNY) is blogging about philosophical counseling
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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