Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The latest news glimpsed during a quick break in the day: Seven New Jersey hospitals on divert status, but the surge is only “beginning”: https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-update-the-surge-is-beginning-7-nj-hospitals-tempor…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Here’s what I was going to say before I was so rudely interrupted by the imperatives of my job. Take a look at this viral video of an NYU Dean responding to students’ about whether they’re to receive a tuiti…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I regard the academy’s response to this as essentially a bad joke. My point is, setting aside the medical schools, they’ve done little or nothing to leave their comfort zones. Moving classes online strikes me a…

“universities, which have adopted what strikes me as a head-in-the-sand, business-as-usual posture during this crisis” Not sure what you mean here. Nearly every university I’m aware of has moved almost everything online. Things seem…

[…] I fantasize that my efforts had something to do with the inclusion of those on the list, but that’s just my vanity […] LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “It seems to me that if justice is a moral virtue, it has to have a certain unity to it, and that unity has to be reflected in how we predicate it of things.” But if there is a moral virtue properly called justice…

So predictable. So insane. LikeLike