Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Brad Rappaport. I reject the premise of your comment. People ask all the time whether nations that didn’t previously exist should exist. Obviously, the question raged about the United States before its independence from Britain. Mutat…

Today is Purim, a holiday on which we celebrate having escaped destruction, and one need not (and should not) adopt the worldview of a Baruch Goldstein in order to see the struggle of Israel writ large as a struggle against annihilation that, as the Pa…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think there is an important distinction to be drawn between divine-command theory and the others with which it is associated, in that the one appeals to a Biblical tradition, and the others make appeal to what is held to be…

The following two thoughts are prompted by reading the first chapter of Pettit’s Republican Freedom, Talisse’s criticism of Pettit (“Impunity and Domination: A Puzzle for Republicanism”), and (the first two sections of) an unpublished essay by Derek Bowman on Pettit’s ideas about republican freedom and non-domination (“The Modality of (Republican) Freedom: Non-Domination As Effective Rights…

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