A slightly larger mini-heap of links than usual… How “claim[s] that someone was the inventor of modern logic or a particular branch of philosophy” come to be a part of philosophy’s story — more from Jens Lemanski on the case-study of Dummett’s assertion that Frege invented analytic philosophy and modern logic “Few of us now have much idea what online conferencing could become if given the chance…

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Recent links… “A lot of kid stuff involves situations where the risk of something bad happening is very low, but if it does happen, then it’s really terrible.” How should a parent approach these decisions? — perhaps the concept of moral luck could be helpful What is a woman? — a discussion between Talia Mae Bettcher and Tomas Bogardus, moderated by Miles Donahue “Liberal learning” is “a kind of…

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Susanne Langer by Juliet Floyd. The Liar Paradox in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy by Ahmed Alwishah and David Sanson. Descartes’ Ethics by Denis…

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The latest links… A tendency to move from “disruptive innovation” to “novelty through recombining existing insights into new connective ideas” — a study of work by millions of scientists over six decades on the relationship between researcher age and creativity “If you can… have philosophy and creativity and, let’s say, moral goodness penetrate every aspect of your life, then yeah, that seems an…

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: ∅ Revised: Géraud de Cordemoy by Fred Ablondi. 18th Century German Aesthetics by Paul Guyer. Normative Economics and Economic Justice by Marc…

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Interesting stuff elsewhere… “There are lots of decisions that, in an ideal world, would be made in a flexible, holistic, discretionary way, but which cannot be made that way by institutions that have lost the public’s trust” — Daniel Greco on public trust in higher education The Splintered Mind turns 20 — Eric Schwitzgebel takes the occasion to reflect on the benefits of philosophy blogging Is a…

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New links… Which button should you press? — Richard Chappell on a recent viral poll “It is somewhat puzzling that… so few universities have found ways to make the case [for] independent education and the advancement and preservation of knowledge” — Eric Schliesser on cynicism in the academy “Qualia are not puzzles that can be solved by increasingly elegant syntax” — an argument that purports to…

Latest links… “Humans now are just having the right tools and desire to be able to look at whale voices in this way to see the complexity that has been there all along” — new analyses shows that whale vocalizations are “highly complex” and similar to human ones When colleges treat degrees like job credentials and students like customers, the result is “degree hacking” or “college speed runs” —…

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Recent links… Previously unknown poems by Iris Murdoch have been discovered and will be read at an upcoming festival — including “a very moving love poem” about Elizabeth Anscombe “The suspicion that he abused a white girl is a threat to his legitimacy in a way that the documented obliteration of a school of brown girls is not” — Arianne Shahvisi shows that Morgan Luck’s “Gamer’s Dilemma” speaks…

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Items of interest elsewhere… A survey of Kant’s relationships with women, including the “catastrophically underrated” Caroline von Keyserlingk — Daniel Andreas dishes on Kant’s love life. Don’t miss the sexy letter from Maria Charlotta Jacobi “You applied to a PhD program in philosophy in the U.S. You haven’t been admitted. You haven’t been rejected. You’re in limbo.” — some explanation and…

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Recent additions to the Heap of Links… Fallacies as “memetic mimicry” — Steven Hales borrows from nature to describe fallacies and their significance “How do we balance the creativity needed to discover new mathematical connections with the rigor needed to ensure that every logical step is undeniable?” — debates over formalization and technology in mathematics evoke questions that may apply to…

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L i n k s . . . “It asks us to dig into ourselves, and cultivate emotions of love and reciprocity” — Martha Nussbaum discusses opera’s relevance to political freedom, on WNYC Sometimes you learn that you actually have no duty to perform some task that you had thought you had a duty to perform — “I am interested in morally evaluating the feeling of relief I then often have,” says Alex Pruss…

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The latest links… “It is puzzling to many why enthusiasts of sports get so emotionally caught up and absorbed in the outcome of games in spite of the fact that those outcomes rarely if ever have any appreciable bearing on their ordinary lives” — Is this like getting emotionally invested in fiction, as some argue? Not at all, says William J. Morgan “Our tradition has become one of diversity and it…

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Items of interest elsewhere… “I really don’t know how it happened, how it is that I came to feel myself equal to tackling the headiest of topics” — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein recalls getting hooked on the “ecstasy” of abstract ideas “The core aspiration of the project was to create opportunities for the public to do the humanities rather than only learn about the humanities” — Stone Addington on…

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What’s going on elsewhere… “Aristotle told us there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made up of five elements and we no longer believe that” — Barry Smith on how we may have over 20 different senses and how they are interrelated A cryptic crossword puzzle for philosophers — by Joe Slater “The principle of lifelong learning” is the idea that the “education system should make as…

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Links to check out… “The greatest risk posed by automation in higher education is not simply the replacement of particular tasks by machines, but the erosion of the broader ecosystem of practice that has long sustained teaching, research and learning” — Nir Eisikovits & Jacob Burley on how AI may “hollow out” educational institutions “Science has shattered our worldview again and again, but so,…

Latest links… “Each step made sense within its own intellectual climate, yet the cumulative effect was to impose on Aristotle a conception of tragedy he would scarcely have recognized” — Jonathan Bate on the history of the “tragic flaw” “Past, present, and future are all there because I look backwards in gratitude, but I also take it up in the present, and I project myself into the future: How am…