Mini-Heap
The latest additions to the Heap of Links…
- What are the main contributions that philosophers have made to Internet studies? — Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) starts a list and gets some help from the crowd
- “If a being is conscious at all, what it is like to be that being involves an organisation toward staying alive” — Gary Francione (Rutgers) on what this means for the moral treatment of animals
- Paste text into “Only The Questions,” and the result will be an “x-ray” of it that shows you… only the questions — Clive Thompson describes why he made this tool, and provides some examples and a link so you can try it yourself
- The Future Fund wants to support organizations and individuals whose work will make the future go well — and is funding projects in artificial intelligence, values and reflective processes, and epistemic institutions, altruism, and other areas philosophers might contribute to
- “Eros commits crimes of passion because, first and foremost, it commits crimes of thought. It attacks the heart by way of the mind. Eros is an intellectual monster” — Agnes Callard (Chicago) had a terrible romance. What can be learned from it?
- “We are often poorly positioned to make sound judgments about whether someone is virtue signaling… the epistemically virtuous… thing to do is to avoid making such judgments” — Mark Satta (Wayne State) & A.K. Flowerree (Texas Tech) on intellectual humility and public discourse
- “My grandfather… was summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the winter of 1958” — Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State Univ.) on the lessons his grandfather’s ordeal holds for today’s disputes over teaching about racism
Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a 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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