Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Summer Wind Apartment Homes) Coming Soon: Your Pie Auburn
Pizza lovers, rejoice! A popular build-it-yourself pizza chain is on its way to The Loveliest Village on the Plains. Your Pie Auburn has plans to open this spring on West Magnolia Avenue! About Your Pie Specializing in custom pizzas and craft beer, Your Pie Auburn will be one among about 70 locations, but only the…
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(QC RSS) Know Your Goblin
whomst among us
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on MERELY NON-IDEAL VS. OBJECTIONABLE RESPONSES TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. That is helpful. Yes, I’m partial to just this proposal, both for withdrawing participation in unjust social norms and institutions and for other structurally similar cases as well. What is behind it, though, is a further pro…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The End of History (for Physics)? by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Hi Stephen, I’m not sure what you mean by your first question about learning the relations “true” and “false,” but the question is thought-provoking. I presume that one learns the relations true and f…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The End of History (for Physics)? by boydstun
David, I was wondering if you would say that the relations ‘true’ and ‘false’ can be learned without knowing there are some things (objects, passages, situations, characters) we do not know but can come to know. Also, would you say that only a mind tha…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Ukraine: After the Last Sky by EissaMo (@EissaMo8)
Mearsheimer’s analysis explains the view from the Kremlin (and rebuts the ridiculous idea that Putin is an insane Hitler), but that’s basically as far as it goes. When you ignore the non-superpower states (or non-states for that matter)R…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Nuclear Deterrence 101
Thanks to our ever helpful volunteer narrator, this post is now also available in audio format. This week I wanted to expand on something I touched on only briefly in our ‘explainer’ on Putin’s War in Ukraine: the “delicate balance of terror” of nuclear deterrence. Of course this is a complex and much debated topic,…
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(Cat and Girl) Parties All the Time
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) style project
I’m halfway through a memo for work. I’m struggling a bit with the style, because it’s stuck between being broadly informative and terse, and rah-rah-inspiring, and I’m not sure which way to go with it. It’s also the first bit of writing I’ve done for a while (and certainly the first since my heavy flirtation…
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(QC RSS) Parental Anti-Guidance
She’s KIND of a voice actor
Got any book recommendations?