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- Watch someone become competently acquainted with a pleasure, in the Millian sense — composer David Bruce spends a week trying to find out if he can like the music of Ludovico Einaudi
- “It is straightforwardly good for a typical plant to have access to sunlight, water and soil nutrients” — such an anodyne claim may pose problems for Peter Singer’s “equal consideration of interests” argument about non-human animals, says Joseph Moore (Oxford)
- “A revival of this genre is overdue” — Martin Lenz (Groningen) on the value of the commentary—and some tips on how to write one
- “We remain convinced that Israelis and Palestinians are infinitely better than their leaders” — Anna C. Zielinska (Lorraine) and Alain Policar (Sciences Po) on supporting peace and those working towards it
- “Every day there’s a new story about some outlandish, bizarre, or embarrassing thing individual college students somewhere have said” — but “things that individual college students say—no matter how outlandish—are almost never newsworthy,” writes Erik Angner (Stockholm)
- “Dead people are people too. New technologies are probably going to make the way we process this fact increasingly weird” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on the influence of the administrative and technological on the moral
- “Aristotle just popped up, and what made it more suspicious was that he seems to have an all-encompassing body of knowledge, ranging from optics and ethics to economics and politics” — a nationalist Chinese political scientist says Aristotle couldn’t have been real
Discussion welcome.
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.
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. Thank you.
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