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Mini-Heap New links… - To say that something is indescribable is to describe it. What should we think about this “paradox of ineffability”? — best to dissolve it, argues Peter van Elswyk - “Moving through time also means moving through space” — this makes time travel “a very bad idea”, explains Douglas Giles (via the Browser) - Two new sermons by St Augustine discovered — about the Old Testament story of the Witch of Endor and its implications - “The highbrow has its defenders (snobs) and the lowbrow its defenders (hipsters), but it is not easy to find defenders of the middlebrow” — Until now. Aaron Meskin & Jonathan Weinberg explain and defend the possibility of good middlebrow art - “I’m certainly as prone as the next academic to bemoaning the trials and tribulations of contemporary university life—but when I [compare it to my] pre-academic world of work and education… my good fortune smacks me in the face” — Nigel Pleasants on his path into academic philosophy - “It would be the largest protected class in society. Even if it existed, would it be a class that people wanted to join?” — Joshua Rothman on lookism and the epistemic injustices faced by those deemed ugly - “Our students [have] compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think educators should respect this” — Carla Fehr & Jenny Saul think we should stop assuming all students are tempted by the technology Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several 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. Previous edition. Login 0 Comments Oldest