Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I kinda wanted it to be something like: we’ll captivate you and transform you and you’ll never want to leave, but when you have to, we’ll give you invaluable guidance about how to get where you’re goin…

“To my mind, the incentives generated by the priority of quantity over quality are the driving force behind the excessive quantity of low quality academic publications. Critics of academia consistently understate the role of these incentives when…

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Agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa needs to improve to reduce hunger, poverty, and the destruction of biodiversity.

You can hear in the background of this blog, like a creek at the end of a field, a constant wash of attitudes changing. Not much, to be honest, or not as much as I’d hope. At the end of college, a friend of mine was terrified of backing into just one role, ending up…

In reply to boydstun. My certainty that you were at the 1992 ARS/APA meeting has now greatly diminished. You’re right, George’s paper was first published in Objectivity, and soon thereafter in JARS. The last time I saw George was, I believe…