Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I would say that an account of republicanism needs a lot more than a placeholder to deal with the issue of paternalism. A basic problem with republicanism is that it seems inherently and objectionably paternalistic: non-dominative interferences don&#82…

Remember when British propaganda rag Guardian & BBC continuously referred to Gaza, prior to the Oct 7th Abomination war, as an “open-air prison”. Now during the siege of Rafah these worthless rags depict the contrast between Gaza before and after O…

As I said in our discussion, this seems to me to be overly narrow conception of domination–a species of domination, not the thing as such. You can have domination without any self-conscious attempt to cultivate submission. Suppose that I am the d…

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

Here’s a way to think of domination that might accord with our intuitions about the paradigm or unambiguous cases (and help us explain the borderline, extended or special cases). The core idea is that, when X’s governing consideration in deliberating about what to do is what Y wants X to do, X is in a…