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Recent links…
Discussion welcome.
- “Practicing our ethics in the real world involves a constant testing of them, a recognition that our zones of ethical interest have no fixed boundaries and may need to widen and shrink moment by moment as the situation demands” — Zadie Smith on the morality of the student protests, and the critiques of them
- Political change, pragmatism, and Buddhism — Scott R. Stroud (Texas) on Bhimrao Ambedkar’s “purposive reconstruction of Buddhism as his new way of creating democratic habits in individuals”
- “The lesson is that empirical complexities cannot just be ignored away by focusing on those areas least accessible to empirical investigation” — David Strohmaier (Cambridge) on a broader lesson of the debate over the question of what words are
- What did ancient Greek music sound like? — the aulos solo is especially good
- “Philosophy should, to some extent, concern itself with cultural traditions that… pack philosophical commitments into cultural expressions where these commitments are not defended in an argumentative way” — an interview with Justin Smith-Ruiu
- “Rather than staking out our hill to die on, we should be more open to uncertainty and experimentation” — a physicist, a philosopher, and a psychologist are interviewed about their new co-authored book on scientific thinking
- Even the “utopian ideal will be politically polarized, though not (as in actual societies) due to the epistemic failures of citizens” — Adam Gjesdal on “a deep limitation of normative thought”
As a companion to Professor Stroud’s article (no. 2 above) I have a basic English language bibliography on “The Life, Work, and World of Bhimrao Ramji (B.R.) Ambedkar:” https://www.academia.edu/4843872/B_R_Ambedkar_a_basic_bibliography
With the pdf version you can click on the embedded links to compilations with strong family resemblance to the Ambedkar list.