Mini-Heap
The most recent additions to the Heap of Links…
- The tech that’s a stepping stone towards a “‘digital super-intelligent [cognitive] layer’ that enables humans to ‘merge’ with artificially intelligent software” — details on the latest brain-machine interface from Neuralink
- The author of “An Unknown Woman”, a book sometimes described as “a feminist’s Walden”, has died — Alice Koller had PhD in philosophy from Harvard, “provided inspiration for so many,” yet struggled throughout her life
- “To call education ‘job training’ is, quite simply, to call it ‘learning how to follow someone else’s orders'” — Zena Hitz (St. John’s College) on the “liberating power” of a liberal arts education
- Free Hegel! — to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, Cambridge University Press is making a lot of Hegel content open access & putting out new blogs & podcasts
- Probability, Bayesianism, epistemology, explanation, and more — an interview with Darren Bradley (Leeds)
- “Philosopher AI” uses GPT-3 to answer your questions — but not particularly well
- Diversify your philosophy of art readings — a list of works from over 60 authors from racial & ethnic groups often marginalized in Western, Anglo-European philosophy, from Alex King (Simon Fraser)
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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