Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in November, but I don’t want to…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) If Curtis starts talking about blogs, it’s over
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! Curtis, 10/7/24 While we all like to see a syndicated newspaper comic keep up with times, I’m afraid…
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(Our World in Data) Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?
Cancer is one of the biggest health challenges worldwide. Around 15% of all deaths are caused by cancer, making it one of the most common causes of death globally.
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(Policy of Truth) Every Life, A Universe
Firestone Plaza, Princeton University
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Vote Like It Matters by Roderick T. Long
I think we have an imperfect duty to contribute to public goods. Since the duty is imperfect, we can pick the occasions as we prefer. So there’s no duty to vote, but voting is one possible way of satisfying a duty, and so is not per se irration…
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(QC RSS) New Fetish Unlocked
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(xkcd.com) University Commas
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Vote Like It Matters
It’s become a cliché of philosophical commentary on the ethics of voting that voting is prima facie irrational. If you vote as an individual, your vote represents a mere 1/n of the totality of the election, where n represents the total number of voters in the election. If we consider, say, national elections in the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sunday is for lore
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! Judge Parker, 10/6/24 You might recall my earlier irritation that both Sophie and Neddy were involved in family…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) We all want to do this when our computers make us mad, honestly
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! The Phantom, 10/5/24 One of the more, uh, problematic aspects of the Phantom lore is that the Phantoms…
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