Mini-Heap
Links you might like to check out…
Discussion welcome.
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The right to a human decision — Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) on what this right entails and its status in human rights law
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“It is very exciting and very interesting, and very hard to say ‘no’ to” — philosopher Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm) shares some brief thoughts on being on the Nobel Prize Committee for Literature
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What is “what is it like” like in other languages? — a question from Keith Frankish (Sheffield)
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If money expired after a while, what problems would that solve? What problems would it create? — the case for, and interesting history of, expiring money
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Philosophy gift guides by area of specialization — from the University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy
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“There is no greater way we can fail our students than to tell them that their moral questions have no place on our campuses” — Sukaina Hirji (Penn) and Serene J. Khader (Brooklyn/CUNY) on why we ought not condemn student protests
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A simple-sounding problem involves numbers so large it has mathematicians lamenting, “the universe is so small” — it concerns getting from one state of affairs to another, and its difficulty reminds us how uncertain our accounting of our uncertainty is