Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

[…] struck by the remarkable prescience of my brother’s prediction back in mid-March. Would we, I asked him, face catastrophe? No, he said. Would we have the same outcome as Italy? Not […] LikeLike

[…] haven’t had the chance to write up a comprehensive follow-up to my first post on the situation in New Jersey back on March 31. Rest assured that things are worse here than they were then. The surge here has begun, but is […] LikeL…

The worst of the surge seems to have come and gone in New York City; so far, the damage there seems to have taken the form of a bad, but not worst-case scenario, partly due to the efforts to avoid a worst-case scenario. This article from Harvard Business Review describes what was done at Elmhurst…

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I’m pleased to see versions of the dorm re-purposing proposal that my brother and I made back in March being considered and adopted in a variety of places. Obviously, we weren’t the first or only people to have come up with the idea. This piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education preceded mine. So did…

To pre-empt some of the loose talk I’m seeing about my supposedly permissive views on policing: https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-diary-28-the-fifth-amendment-under-quarantine/ https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.com/2019/11/…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. One more to add to the preceding list: one commenter (a journalist, not a physician) expressed surprise at the author’s description of hospitals’ imposition of restrictive covenants on physicians formerly employed…