Mini-Heap

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 I going to live now that I’ve been the beneficiary?” — a posthumously published interview with Jonathan Lear “If psychopaths are not accountable, we should not simply punish them as if they were ordinary offenders” — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong with the first of a series of posts at The Brains Blog this week on “agency and mental disorder” “In Our Time” returns with new host Misha Glenny and a discussion of Mill’s On Liberty — with Piers Turner, Helen McCabe, and Mark Philp “Heath goes off the rails here in a number of ways” — Eric Schliesser on Joseph Heath’s piece on Rawls (that I posted about earlier) “It must be very hard to publish null results” — our picture of the empirical is skewed when we can’t find the studies in which the experiments failed to support their hypotheses (social science version) — and the science version “A newspaper is—or ought to be—the opposite of an algorithm, a bastion of enlightened generalism in an era of hyperspecialization and personalized marketing” — Becca Rothfeld on the demise of The Washington Post’s book review section 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. The post Mini-Heap first appeared on Daily Nous.