Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The passage with context and bibliographical details, here: “A Warning to the Nation” (from Kashf al-Asrar, 1941). Of course, in the first sentence, the modifier “now existing in the world” (later “that we see in the world…

In reply to sean samis. I think both you and Michael are cutting this comparison too much slack by exaggerating how much good you expect it to do, and minimizing the reformist work that’s recently been done in policing. The issue is not whether t…

I think mlyoung57 captured the essential point that motivates me: “I suspect that, even if this particular comparison is not the best, one of the centrally good, effective and not-too-inaccurate polemical points here will be precisely comparisons of th…

In reply to mlyoung57. This particular post is probably too trivial to deserve the long discussion we’ve already given it, and I don’t expect him to retract it. I just think it’s silly. I haven’t commented on his blog. I haven&…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Another immediate reaction: what would constitute good polemics for a view like Cowen’s? He is going to need some vivid point that indicates, in a simplified way, that the regulatory state has its priorities messed up a…