Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on ON APPROPRIATELY FEARING THE REAPER (HOW THE FITTINGNESS OF FITTING ATTITUDES IS NOT A FUNCTION OF WELFARE-VALUE) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. Going by your numbering in the May 19, 2:19 comment: (1) In this discussion, I was focusing specifically on fear rather than making a general point about all normative attitudes as such. It just seems to me that fear in particula…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Why we shouldn’t complain quite so much about complaint theory by Irfan Khawaja
I want to hold off responding to this until we’re through all of chapter 5. Having made my way half-way through the chapter, I’m still inclined to think that the “explanatory priority” problem remains, but without reading the re…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Gaslighting the Nuclear Fuse by boydstun
In reply to boydstun. In that first link, the text below the double line on the page that includes the heading “The Usefulness of Barking” should not have been included in the scan; I goofed. That text was not part of my study; It was a bit…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Gaslighting the Nuclear Fuse by boydstun
Increasing loss of control by lifting of safeties as a nuclear crisis intensifies is part of why nuclear deterrence has worked and possession of nuclear weapons by the superpowers has not been idle. My old study in nuclear capabilities and strategy are…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, May 20, 2022
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll be diving into a series (I am imagining four parts) on pre-modern generalship (with a particular emphasis on the broader Mediterranean world in classical antiquity and the middle ages) and the ways that it was shaped by key constraints which are often removed in modern imaginings of command (particularly…
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(Policy of Truth) Why we shouldn’t complain quite so much about complaint theory
In Ch. 4 (“Wrongness and Reasons”) of Thomas Scanlon’s WHAT WE OWE TO EACH OTHER, Scanlon introduces us to the basic idea of his “contractualist” theory of moral rightness and wrongness. Specifically: an act is wrong if its performance in the circumstances would be disallowed by any set of principles for the general regulation of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on ON APPROPRIATELY FEARING THE REAPER (HOW THE FITTINGNESS OF FITTING ATTITUDES IS NOT A FUNCTION OF WELFARE-VALUE) by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Two more things… (that not really a reply to your comment, just additional points I want to make, having reread my initial post and the comments, replies, etc.) (I) The standards for fittingness seem to be “cognit…
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(Cat and Girl) Utopian Visions, or, the People’s Revenge
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on ON APPROPRIATELY FEARING THE REAPER (HOW THE FITTINGNESS OF FITTING ATTITUDES IS NOT A FUNCTION OF WELFARE-VALUE) by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Several points (including an important concession!): (1) I’m not denying (and nor would Scanlon deny) that fearing something or being amused by something or being disgusted by something does not inherently involve (if w…
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