Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Some of the best writing I’ve seen on India is Shikha Dalmia’s at Reason: https://reason.com/people/shikha-dalmia/ She ought to get a prize of some kind for this. Any suggestions? LikeLike

Another author unsure of whether he’s offering a medical diagnosis or political advice–or perhaps, medical diagnosis versus a plug for Bernie. https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/bidens-brain-is-breaking-down/?fbclid=IwAR3nWPbDYw5HzO0Q…

Useful pair of (contrasting) articles on this (ht: Annette Bryson): https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/joe-biden-old-age-1468635 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-age-media-227499 I’m not a fan of Biden’s, but I’ve run the first of these articles past a lot of people aggressively adamant about their “diagnoses” of Biden’s “dementia.” Not one of them could defend the claim that they were in a position to offer…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m tempted to email Seligman and ask him which comparison he prefers. He opens the book by inviting email queries: I rarely answer phone calls, and I never do snail mail any more, but because there is a twenty-four-…

Maybe the student was referring to JEAN Simmons. LikeLike

A different (but substantive) take on Super Tuesday by Kevin Vallier: https://www.kevinvallier.com/reconciled/congratulations-democrats-you-are-a-political-party/ He has a point, but I don’t think he reckons with the bad faith of the centrists i…

Student, to me: Dude, my generation’s acid is like your generation’s acid…on acid! And you thought “OK, boomer” was a cutting generational comment. The comment came up (in case you were wondering) during a discussion of Martin Seligman’s critique of psychopharmacology in his book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being (pp. 47-48).…

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