New links…

How technology plays a role in changing morality — Jeroen Hopster (Utrecht) talks with John Danaher (University College, Galway) about “Pistols, Pills, Pork and Ploughs”
“To say that it is the destiny of antelopes to be torn apart by predators is like saying that it is the destiny of women to be raped” — Martha Nussbaum on human stewardship of the animal world (may require free registration)
Classic classics — the classics site Antigone asks 40 writers and readers for their favorite ancient Greek and Latin texts
How to mug Jeremy Bentham — a dialogue by Johan E. Gustafsson (Texas)
Philosophy is the top major at Cambridge — in terms of average number of total sexual partners per student, according to Varsity
“At that time, the first half of the seventeenth century, it was still a reasonable project for one man to have the idea that he can lay the foundations of all future science” — Bernard Williams talks with Bryan Magee about Descartes
“Whatever story you tell about yourself, however simple and straightforward, there is endlessly more to your actual life” — don’t treat your life as a project, advises Kieran Setiya (MIT)

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. Thanks!

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