Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

All of that sounds right. Actually, Plato is probably an unnecessarily complicated example to pick, considering the difficulties involved in interpreting dialogues as opposed to treatises (i.e., the difficulty involved in distinguishing his view from t…

I read your post at BHL responding to me. Obviously, I’m not going to dispute that we should have worries about our reliability as truth-trackers, but then, most of us (in this profession) do. I’d be curious to hear what others think, but I…

It didn’t even occur to me that people would find this thesis objectionable or implausible. I thought I was pointing out something we all know and pointing out an unfortunate implication of it. LikeLike

In case you thought they were joking, or that resistance had ended: Two days after I filed a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s unconstitutional law against boycotting Israel, Israeli Prime Minister responds by threatening any state that allows BDS. A fo…

So they get our freedom of speech, conscience, and association, along with our money and our moral support, and, in return, we get a tweet from their half-ousted Prime Minister. Sounds like the Deal of the Century. Actually, sounds like the deal of the last century, too. It was also not for nothing that the…