Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. You join in the endeavor making US actions in Iraq seem both irrational and evil. No one in the US really wants a continued military presence in Iraq. Keeping watch over the remnants of Daesch is a fair and reasonable thing…

In reply to Jacques Delacroix. How am I lining up with the mad ayatollahs and Hezbollah? I don’t have a sister, but my mother would be truly appalled to learn that I was–if I was. But I’m not. I can’t resist pointing out that I…

Irfan: Of course, many of your statements make sense but, in the end, you are lining up with the mad ayatollahs and with the obscurantist, terrorist Hezbollah. What would your sister say if you had a sister? LikeLike

Apply these as you see fit: Bureauontology: the tendency to treat bureaucratic edits as deontological norms. Deontocracy: a form of governance under which the preponderance of the laws make no contribution to the common good.

[…] willing to indulge in irresponsibility. God help me if I get stopped by a cop for breaking curfew as I’m driving supplies to a hospital, or driving somewhere to help a friend in need, or whatever. And God help the cop, too. I know [&#82…

[…] Repurpose vacated college dorms as quarantine facilities. I wrote this last proposal up in a previous post, but in what strikes me in retrospect as an excessively chatty form. Here it is again; we should […] LikeLike

Life is not a TV dinner. –Motorhead I’m generally in favor of the so-called “lockdown” policies that have been adopted in New York and New Jersey, but I also think that the policies have been slightly misconceptualized in the abstract, and are now starting to go somewhat off the rails in practice. Here are a…

We worked with the Youtube channel, Kurzgesagt, to make a video on the COVID-19 pandemic and what to do about it.

I drove through the “epicenter of the global pandemic today.” What was it like? Nothing in particular. Colleagues in the Department of Art at my university answered my earlier plea for medical supplies by offering up their hidden stash of nitrile gloves. So I drove from my home in Readington, New Jersey to the university…