Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap of Links… “Beyond its role in policing deductive arguments, logic discerns patterns in reality of the most abstract, structural kind” — Timothy Williamson (Oxford) on the wonderful world of logic—a good piece to share with beginning logic students Existential Comics celebrates its first decade — with a joke 10 years in the making Did Kripke scoop Jackson’s knowledge argument against physicalism? — Adriana Renero (CUNY) presents a deafness-based example from Kripke’s 1979 Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind that’s similar to Jackson’s Mary example, published in 1982 LLMs are “fundamentally limited by language itself” while “human intelligence draws upon a panoply of ways of knowing and being” — critiques of current “AI” drawn from a philosopher ahead of her time: Susanne Langer “The obscurity with which the empirical interpretation of IIT [integrated information theory] is shrouded makes it very hard not to think of it as closer to metaphysics than to an empirical theory” — Felipe De Brigard (Duke) has started a new Substack, and his first post is on why he signed the “IIT is pseudoscience” letter Can the abortion debate be resolved by Immanuel Kant? — yes, argues Helga Varden (Illinois) “Painful feelings of loneliness” may arise “even though the individuals undergoing such experiences have a loving network of friends, family and colleagues who support them and recognise their unconditional value” — this suggests something is missing from standard conceptions of loneliness, argues Kaitlyn Creasy (CSU San Bernadino) Discussion welcome. 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.
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NeuroDiving: a Show about Neurodivergence and Philosophy

NeuroDiving is a new philosophy podcast, radio-quality in its production, about neurodivergence. Created and hosted by Amelia Hicks (Kansas State) and Joanna Lawson (Oklahoma State), NeuroDiving  has just begun its first season, which is focused on autism. Its first episode is on the contentious state of autism research, and features an interview with Chloe Farahar. Professor Hicks writes: The following four episodes focus on the myth that autism is a “theory of mind deficit.” We investigate where the concept of “theory of mind” came from, how the “theory of mind deficit” view of autism has affected autistic people, what went wrong with the scientific research that was used to support this myth, and how we can improve autism research by reflecting on the values that drive scientific practice. Other guests on Season 1 include Daniel Dennett, Tobi Abubakare, Travis LaCroix, Joe Gough, Heidi Maibom, and Ryan Althaus. She adds that the podcast “will be of interest to people who want to learn more about neurodivergence, philosophy, and the social sciences. And it might be a useful teaching resource for some of your readers.” You can listen to a trailer for the show here. The program is in part the product of training provided by the Marc Sanders Philosophy in the Media Initiative.
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New:         ∅ Revised: Catharine Trotter Cockburn by Patricia Sheridan. Sophie de Grouchy by Sandrine Berges. Levels of Organization in Biology by Markus I. Eronen and Daniel Stephen Brooks. Locke’s Philosophy of Science by Hylarie Kochiras. Baruch Spinoza by Steven Nadler. Iamblichus by Riccardo Chiaradonna and Adrien Lecerf IEP     ∅   NDPR     ∅    1000-Word Philosophy     Kant’s Theory of the Sublime by Matthew Sanderson. Project Vox     ∅ Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals      A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier) is reviewed by Arthur Sollie in Philosophical Psychology. Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media         Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns is reviewed at Kirkus Reviews. Animal Liberation Now and Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer are together reviewed by Simone Gubler at The Times Literary Supplement. Compiled by Michael Glawson BONUS: History of Science
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