Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

“I should make clear that the accusations against me back in 2017 were false. I had no intention whatsoever of shooting up a faculty meeting.” Please provide a photograph of you not having said intention. Pics or it didn’t not happen…

About six years ago, in the fall of 2017, someone at Felician University called the local police to report that a member of the faculty, one Irfan Khawaja, had threatened to bring firearms to a faculty meeting later that day, with the intention of shooting it up and killing everyone there. Soon after teaching my…

In reply to mlyoung57. @Michael: I definitely misunderstood you before. I took you to be agreeing with David Potts (against Estlund), and I took myself to be agreeing with both of you. But I gather I’m really agreeing with DP, not you. I would n…

In reply to mlyoung57. In a long footnote (note 24), Estlund addresses the “action-guiding” status of an idealized moral requirement that will not be fulfilled. He thinks it is often the case that one should not act on the requirement if it…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I have to amend one thing I said in the previous comment. I said, “To be fair, “Cartesian” was my word, not Hazony’s. Hazony’s point is that Locke’s rationalism contradicts his empiricism.” Actually, Hazony explic…

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In reply to David Potts. I’m sorry, I was not clear. My initial point was that using ‘can’t will’ to formulate either (i) the principle linking motivational deficit or incapacity to inability to do the thing or (ii) the principl…