Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “One of the most idyllic college campuses I’ve ever visited” I’ve always thought the U C Santa Barbara campus had a certain appeal: LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The absence of such content is itself a statement on, and thus an instance of, such content. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “the bizarre view that Roderick ascribes to Hayek” I don’t think the view you describe is one I ascribe to Hayek. LikeLike

What, no libertarian, anarchist, or Objectivist related content? LikeLike

In his paper “Favoring,” Antti Kauppenin seeks to explain normative “reasons” (it being the case that one has reason to do something, an item being a reason for one to do that something) in terms of normative “oughts” (it being the case that one ought to do something). Part of his view, or at least…

Commentary on Mack (8): I don’t have time to elaborate on this, so I’ll just leave it at a bare statement of the intuition, but it seems to me that we can get some purchase on Typhoid Mary and lesser-but-similar cases by thinking about tra…

Running commentary on Mack (7): Wait, so Eric doesn’t regularly read PoT??? LikeLike

Running commentary on Mack (6): The suicide example Eric needs is actually a pretty common one–jumping off of a bridge into a large river, where the body gets swept away, and is never found. Unlike Eric, I not only would accept the argument he ga…

Running commentary on Mack (5): I enjoyed the discussion on the relationship between egoism and rights. I incline to a view in the neighborhood of Roderick’s and Greg Salmieri’s, maybe more toward Salmieri’s than to Roderick’s, …

Running commentary on Mack (4): Rand lived in various places in the East 30s in New York City. But she’s mostly associated with Murray Hill, east of the Empire State Building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Hill,_Manhattan https://murrayhi…