Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. With or without your additions, I would insist on a prior empirical point. What is the actual, non-confabulated empirical evidence that people hold either the view that George describes or the modified version of that view that y…

This is my favorite of your posts on wokeness. I take George to be attempting to define something that anyone (or any group or any ideological or political movement) might be guilty of. Now: what is missing? I can think of a few things. First, a motiva…

[…] made this point before, and suppose I’ll have to make it again and again until it gets through. But it’s a […] LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Or perhaps such a terrible experience can be seen to justify almost any degree of violence LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. That’s super-helpful, Irfan. We are hardly going to settle matters regarding fitting-attitudes-type analyses of the target normative features here, but maybe we can move the ball forward a bit. Here, then, are some resp…

Thank you! It occurs to me in talking to a transplanted Floridian that I’ve always focused so much on Inness’s New Jersey paintings that I’ve often neglected his Florida ones. But he had a second home in Tarpon Springs, Florida, and h…

In reply to butimbeautiful. It’s actually been argued that there’s a connection between the two things, that collective trauma over the Holocaust has brutalized Israeli attitudes toward the Palestinians. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-…