Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Incidentally, in the interests of bringing greater organization to the blog (my latest resolution), I’m assigning your Scanlon posts to the appropriate category. I’d just like to be able to keep like posts together, especially our book disc…

In reply to mlyoung57. I’m not sure. It just seems to me that there are four fairly clear categories: (1) Reflexive responses, neither appropriate nor inappropriate to the situation (2) Non-reflexive responses appropriate to the situation (3) Non…

Cooking oil is an especially terrible example for folks who want to argue that markets should not determine allocation of resources in times of unusually high scarcity. No one could reasonably claim that their demand for cooking oil is price inelastic. There are many common cooking methods that do not rely on oil: boiling, roasting,…

The New York Times recently reports there is a developing cooking oil shortage. The subhead to the article reads: “Several British supermarkets have joined other chains around the world in asking shoppers to limit their cooking oil purchases, as supplies dwindle and prices rise.” Before reading the article I wondered if this sort of request…

Most people still eat some meat. But survey data shows that many report adopting a diet with less animal products. Young people are more likely to be non- or only occasional meat-eaters.