Mini Heap

Mini Heap Items of interest elsewhere… - “Du Bois is read as the Black Hegel, and Fanon as a Black Sartre… [but] turning non-Western thinkers into tame versions of ourselves is a kind of intellectual colonialism that we need to get beyond” — Takeshi Morisato on the risks of comparative philosophy - “The very same bits of nature can lead to the best life and its greatest corruption” — Eric Schliesser discusses Socrates, Smith, inquiry, and equality in one of a series of posts about Agnes Callard’s “Open Socrates” - “When there was some… topic that seemed intriguing, it was dismissed with condescending authority by the question, ‘Yes, but is it philosophy?’ It took me years to see the bullying in such questions” — Eleonore Stump’s 2023 Dewey Lecture - Recent work in the epistemology of inquiry — a useful survey by Pablo Hubacher Haerle - “The goal would be to make available, to students of all ages everywhere, a truly comprehensive record of documented human civilizations and ideas in all their variety” — a benefit of AI humanists should appreciate is the access it gives us to the past, argues Bob Pasnau - “Einstein echoes Wittgenstein, who emphasised in his later work that his aim was to provide ‘the understanding that consists in seeing connections’ – literally, a new way of looking” — Ray Monk on the scientific and philosophical ideas of Einstein - The philosophy of waiting in line — conceptual and normative work on queuing from Johann Go 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