Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Michael and I–sitting a safe distance from one another outdoors–managed to work out what I regard as a pretty thorough solution to our apparent dilemma. It was more Michael’s doing than mine, but I played at least a midwife-like role….

In reply to Loquitur Veritatem. Look forward to it. LikeLike

More from the sports-as-ad-hoc-exception-to-reality files. This one’s from a couple of days ago, but tells the tale well enough: This one’s from today: LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Coincidentally (or not), I have been working on a post about moral judgments that belatedly (and partially) continues our exchange about “Missing the Corpses for the Case”. I expect the post to spark another excha…

Even the CACC seems to have figured out the score: https://www.caccathletics.org/sports/General/COVID-19 Sure took them awhile. But then, there are college campuses where classes were being held as late as 9 pm tonight. I’ve heard of one institut…

In reply to Raymond Raad. I forgot to respond to this: If you judge a person negatively because he’s black, that will impact how you see and interact with other black people in the future. True, but that just changes the question to whether an injusti…

In reply to Raymond Raad. I don’t see why the scenario is unrealistic. You’ve identified one possibility, but that doesn’t rule out a case in which there is literally no future interaction. Suppose Smith sees a single video of Jones; …

In reply to mlyoung57. Yes, there is a small dose of literary license involved here. At a minimum, there is a supervenience relation involved. Unfortunately, I’m not sure which way it goes. Do you supervene on my version of you, or the other way …

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