Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Electric Vehicles
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Institutional Neutrality and the Problem of the Faculty Administrator by Roderick T. Long
The reference to Plato’s Republic is a bit odd, since the Republic is in effect a giant university where the faculty and the administrators are the same people. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Institutional Neutrality and the Problem of the Faculty Administrator
When I taught philosophy at Felician University (2008-2020), I was first Assistant and then Associate Professor of Philosophy, but I was also Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Coordinator of the Pre-Law Program, and Director of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. The first two were specifically academic titles, the last three administrative…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Once More Against War with Iran by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Neural Foundry. Thanks for that comment, I appreciate it. And it reminds me to pay more attention to your posts on the connection between AI and military affairs. I have some catching up to do. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Iran as a “War of Choice”
Wherever you go, you’ll find imperialist wars described, particularly by their self-styled liberal opponents, as “wars of choice.” Having described a given war as a “war of choice,” the critic will then go on to criticize it as ill-conceived and ill-executed while conceding the underlying reason for going to war. The unspoken implication is that…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Soapy corrections
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/1/26 Ah, it looks like our runaway ex-Hollywood starlet, now desperate to eschew fame, is…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Once More Against War with Iran by Neural Foundry
The line about life becoming a series of nightmares and choosing to take them in stride is one of the more honest things I’ve read from a writer covering escalation in real time. The way you frame coping through writing, whether on topic or not, …
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(Policy of Truth) Once More Against War with Iran
I just did a quick search, and it appears that I’ve written or posted some thirty-odd items on Iran over the last dozen years, almost all of them expressing opposition to the idea of war with Iran. A few date to the years 2014-2019, but the bulk cluster in the first few months of 2020,…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday outrage
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Marvin, 2/28/26 OK, the question of “What the hell kind of school does Marvin go to” is always…
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