Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

First, it’s unreasonable to exclude all potential future interaction of any sort. To take a YouTube example, What if smith sees another YouTube video of Jones (Or of someone like jones) and has to decide whether to watch it or move on? Accurate answers…

Thanks. On (1), yes, this was meant to be excluded: …unless Smith has pronounced or will pronounce his judgment of Jones to others who might then do something detrimental to Jones (de-friending him, publicly demeaning him, etc.). LikeLike

On Question 1: Smith has done no injustice to Jones, given that they will never interact, unless Smith has pronounced or will pronounce his judgment of Jones to others who might then do something detrimental to Jones (de-friending him, publicly demeani…

As I was saying, it’s not clear that what the US military hit in that airstrike was anything worth hitting. BAGHDAD — Iraqi military officials strongly condemned the United States military on Friday for airstrikes launched overnight that they …

Michael Young and I are hanging out at an undisclosed location in New Jersey, riding out the coronavirus by trading barbed moral intuitions with (or at?) each other. We need help. I mean, we need your help adjudicating a clash of intuitions about injustice. I doubt that anything of great significance turns on which set…

Without testing for COVID-19 we cannot know how many people are infected with the disease. And without this data we cannot know what is happening. That is why we are bringing together the available data on testing from countries around the world.

Predictable response, inscrutable outcome The airstrikes, which were supported by the British military, targeted the militia Kataib Hezbollah and facilities that were believed to store the type of rockets used in the attack on coalition forces on Wedn…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. … Warrenism is jealous of the political rights of citizens and therefore hostile to electoral practices — like gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and felon disenfranchisement — that deprive vulnerable citizens of equal repre…

Most of the world right now is focused, with good reason, on the coronavirus. For that reason, it will probably have escaped most people’s attention that the Iranian proxy war against the US in Iraq continues, and continues to produce American casualties in the quiet, imperceptible way that dust collects on a table. In illustration…