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  "textContent": "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 would be very un-conservative to try to undo centuries of gradual change and re-establish a Christian state” — the Humanists Philosophers Group on why “Christian nationalism is un-conservative” The “teleonome” is a new concept for understanding animal welfare — a team of scientists develop a kind of capabilities theory for animals (so Nussbaum & Sen would have been a better philosophical framing than the one they chose to use, but still, it’s interesting) “For the models, being bad all the time turns out to be both stabler and more efficient than being bad only in certain situations, like writing code” — does the lesson that “generalizing character is computationally cheap; compartmentalizing it is expensive” apply to humans? Can you see something though you can’t see any of its parts? — yes, argues Daniel García Saavedra Keeping up to date about what’s new in a highly active research area, and then figuring out whether and how you should make use of it in your own research can be challenging — here’s how Seth Lazar’s research group uses agentic AI to help them work “The Liar is not a ‘proposition that is neither true nor false’; it is a linguistic act that fails to produce a proposition” — Eric Winsberg offers a “file not found” solution to the Liar Paradox 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.\n\nThe post Mini-Heap first appeared on Daily Nous.",
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