Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I haven’t even started Gary’s video. My God, at this rate, I’ll never sell the house. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I guess it’s not a Noble Lie, it’s just a huge stretch, highly conducive to self-deception by everyone involved. Granted, that’s an admittedly uncharitable and relatively uninformed crack. The first line…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, I put it loosely or metaphorically there, but the gloss on it is what I say immediately afterward — that Hayek is doing for rule-utilitarianism what rule-utilitarians do for act-utilitarianism. In other words, th…

One last thought on Eric’s interview: In discussing Objectivist approach to justice/rights, Eric suggests that he thinks that all such approaches collapse into a kind of solipsism because they require the claims of others to travel through the w…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. One thought I had while listening to the interview that I forgot to mention: in discussing the tensions (etc.) in the Objectivist view, it seems to me that one position that hasn’t gotten sufficient attention is that &#…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I was talking about the exchange that occurs around 50:00-54:00. In the exchange, you and Eric are both objecting to the idea that respect for rights is reducible to a strategic-consequentialist calculation that says that…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m offended. Let me re-listen. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I guess my big objection the UC Santa Barbara campus is that I’ve never been there. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Fair. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Or, seen from the other direction: LikeLike