The latest additions to the Heap…

1. Why high school teachers should bring philosophy into their classrooms — with some suggestions on how to do it, from Andrew DeBella (via Paul Wilson)
2. Solipsism for sale! — Justin E.H. Smith’s first foray into selling non-fungible digital art expresses doubt about whether the market for it exists
3. “Some students told me they had never thought about what it was like to teach remotely” — C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) on what happened when he was honest with his students about how terrible it is to teach to a screen of black squares over Zoom (WaPo)
4. As we re-open businesses and restart collective activities, we should discriminate between the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated, but how? — philosophers and legal scholars on the various factors morally and legally relevant to post-pandemic policy
5. The scientific and philosophical challenges of defining “life” — a survey of different views on the matter, with ideas from Carol Cleland (Colorado), Kelly Smith (Clemson), and other philosophers
6. Neuro-interventions may replace criminal punishments. Thinking about them can reveal what we value in punishment general — a summary of a study by Corey H. Allen, Eddy Nahmias, and Eyal Aharoni (Georgia State)
7. “Physicists may have just shown for the first time that imaginary numbers are, in a sense, real” — What does that mean?

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the 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!