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Recent additions to the Heap of Links… Discussion welcome. “In the 19th century [liberalism] was an aspirational doctrine for living well, but in the 20th and 21st century it retreated to a much more staid legal and political project.” Why? — Alexandre Lefebvre (Sydney) on the “ethical guts” of liberalism Students need both “appreciation for the difficulty of [philosophical] questions” and “conviction that they themselves might find an answer worth defending” — Gina Schouten (Harvard) on assigning problem sets of philosophy puzzles “The hidden curriculum of higher education—the unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons… that students learn in school… began to reveal itself to me” — Nadia Ruiz (Leibniz University of Hannover) shares her route into philosophy “Right-wing packaging should not obscure the genuine perils to which pronatalism is a response” — Victor Kumar (Boston) on population decline and why it is a progressive issue “He approached his writing much like he lived his life: unconventionally” — a brief film on Richard Wollheim, his views on expressing emotion in painting, and his theory of complex projection, by Vanessa Brassey (KCL) Hegelian e-girls — that’s a thing now “Every now and again (thankfully rarely) I see people advocate for something like affirmative action but for citations. I think this is an awful idea” — Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) comments on the SEP citation rankings Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so 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
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