Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to stephenmlindsay. Not sure what happened. I meant this as a reply to your first comment. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanks for the detailed thoughts. I spoke too broadly. Yes you are right that the provocations are relevant historically and for a factual understanding of the situation, and I want to better understand this historical situat…

In reply to David Potts. That’s helpful, David. Thanks. Maybe I’ll look at the Blackburn paper. The distinction between dispositions and their potential non-dispositional (or “categorical”) grounds makes more sense to me than th…

In your comment, you say: My biases and upbringing prime me for sympathy toward Israel (even prior to these attacks) but I will admit that my understanding of the long-term issues is not great. I guess it’s an interesting question to me how this…

I suppose I should start by saying that I don’t regard the Hamas attack as justified, given the form that it took–targeting non-combatants–and that even if my post doesn’t come out and repudiate the attack in those very words, I…

Thanks, Irfan. Quite helpful. (1) The possibility that you bring up, I take it, goes like this: goodness is primarily attributed to actions in a comparative sense and so its secondary attribution to states of affairs (whatever its verbal form) is compa…

Hi Michael, I’m sorry it’s taken this long to reply to your comment. (It’s been a busy week.) I think you might be responding to the peculiarity of saying that what we perceive are “causal powers themselves.” I agree that …