New links… “If we can’t say exactly how we think, then how well do we know ourselves?” — Have you thought about how you think? Is it in pictures, in patterns, in words, or in some unsymbolized way? The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman thinks about it, with help from philosophers and others How students can use ChatGPT to complete the assignments you give them, and what you can do, including strategies for “leaning in” to the new technology — a video from Mark Alfano (Macquarie) A petition to have Olympe de Gouges, author of “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” (1791), memorialized alongside the “great men of France” in the Pantheon — organized by Sylvia Duverger (Université Paris 8) Simone de Beauvoir wearing a brooch made and given to her by Alexander Calder (possibly this piece) “To hope well is to be realistic about probabilities, not to succumb to wishful thinking or be cowed by fear; it is to hold possibilities open when you should” — Kieran Setiya (MIT) on the virtue of hopefulness “Only by assuming a certain constancy between the present and the past can we use the present world as a guide for our historical interpretations… The trick has always been deciding exactly how the present resembles the past” — Extinct, the philosophy of paleontology blog, is revived—with a new post by its new editor, Max Dresow (Minnesota) “Tell me just what sort of things are the colors you see / if you’re thinking ontologically…” — Daniel Groll (Carleton) composed a jingle for a course on color taught by his colleagues 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!