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Recent links… “Is a podcast about philosophy and the 90s worth anyone’s time?” — Peter Westmoreland (St. Petersburg), host of “Exile in 90sville”, thinks it is “If there were a finite set of possible answers to philosophical questions, or even some way of ordering the field allowing for a principled search procedure, then [ruling out some options] would be a form of progress” — But there isn’t. Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) on progress in philosophy. “Do not cry in the conference room” — “One virtue of being an academic philosopher is to be dispassionate,” says Helen de Cruz (SLU), “and yet, I… fear that by my years of enculturation in academia and my training, I have cut off something important” “The rest understand the West better than the West understands the rest” — Bryan Van Norden (Vassar), Katja Vogt (Columbia) & others at a philosophy and education panel at the UN Pre-Summit of the Future Event “You might think our reasons for voting for the Democrats are not good ones, or that we are merely ‘joking’ when we give them. We can only reply that your reasons really do not matter” — Justin Smith-Ruiu is of three minds about the upcoming election A bioethicist & a philosopher with very different views about technology discuss AI clones, bad knowledge, digital democracy, & more — “Prosthetic Gods” is a new podcast from James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits (UMass Boston) “Intellectual humility… isn’t a virtue, because there are no intellectual virtues” — Rachel Fraser (Oxford) on intellectual humility, science, and virtue epistemology 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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