Mini-Heap
Recent additions to the Heap of Links…
- “Good—that is to say, ethical—sex is not simply about getting consent so that we can do what we want” — Christine Emba on the need for shared sexual norms beyond consent
- What can arguments for extended cognition tell us about aesthetic experience and understanding? — Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh/Stirling) takes Otto inside the museum
- “The mechanisms, meanings, and dynamics of a social population can be investigated along countless different dimensions, and there are no fixed and final ‘laws of social interaction’ that ultimately allow the explanation of the social ensemble” — Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on the “open texture” of the social world
- “When an entire discipline gets gamified, we are in for trouble… we discourage ourselves from being truly playful and creative” — Helen De Cruz (SLU) on the “gamification” of philosophy
- “Chance rules all” — Brian Skyrms (UCI) is interviewed by Richard Marshall at 3:16AM
- “By combining model scale with chain-of-thought prompting, PaLM [Google’s Pathways Language Model] shows breakthrough capabilities on reasoning tasks that require multi-step arithmetic or common-sense reasoning” — be sure to check out the full paper (which they link to), especially p. 38 for examples of logical inference and joke explaining
- Commentary from several philosophers on various aspects of the Russian attack on Ukraine — including Janina Dill, Helen Frowe, Jeff McMahan, Massimo Renzo, Zofia Stemplowska, and Elad Uzan
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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