Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. This article asks how we know about the mortality of children in the past and what we can learn from it for our future.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Put your hand in the box. LikeLike

Isabel Paterson had a somewhat different take …. LikeLike

In reply to butimbeautiful. To be honest, I’m faking whatever meager knowledge of Dune I’m projecting here. I’m almost entirely ignorant of sci-fi. My co-blogger Roderick knows Dune inside out. If anything, what I know best is unscientific fiction. Lik…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Of course! And there’s a lot of islamic/Arab reference going on in Dune LikeLike

In the balance of “Dipert on Kelley’s Kant,” which I’ll put in a new thread, I’ll argue that the Objectivist view of illusions and David Kelley’s diagnosis of a fundamental error in philosophy of perception, are incorrect. I’ll assess Kelley’s resistan…

In my initial Part titled “Kelley and Rand on Kant,” I said that Kelley had erred in taking Kant’s ‘appearance’ to be as in contrast to reality, and that the proper contrast for understanding Kant correctly was to take ‘appearance&#82…