Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

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…

I revel in my power: Of course, while I may have induced the NCAA to cancel March Madness, I don’t seem to have affected the CACC, whose game schedule remains what it was when I wrote this post. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. True to form, my critical thinking students (about 20 of them) told me that they hadn’t gotten flu shots because they “didn’t believe in them,” because “flu shots give you the flu,” because…

Will Wilkinson, not on the meaning of Super Tuesday per se, but on the meaning of Super Tuesday + Big Tuesday: I see Will’s argument here as more specific and more prescriptive than mine, but essentially compatible with it. He implicitly agrees …

Felician is going online as of Monday. I asked about 50 of my students about their attitudes re the coronavirus. (I’m assuming that IRB regulations are suspended during this emergency.) Q1: Have you gotten a flu shot? Most students in my early …

More unintentionally comical contrasts. The NCAA is going strong, but the NBA has suspended its season: I guess the NBA is minor league, compared with the NCAA. More proof that the NCAA should go pro. And then there’s the contrast between the se…

Gee, was it something I said? I post at 10 am, and by evening they’ve got a response. https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/basketball-men/d1/latest-impact-coronavirus-ncaa-di-mens-and-womens-basketball?utm_campaign=trending To be fair to the NCAA, i…

It’s a little known fact that Plato’s truly last and final dialogue was called “The Coronavirus,” took place on a college campus in north Jersey, featured a protagonist named “Khawaja,” and involved a soundtrack by Ozzy: Student 1, walking down the quad: So Khawaja, are we closing or not? Khawaja: I don’t know. Student 2:…