Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Foundational Frames: Descartes and Rand
My study “Foundational Frames: Descartes and Rand” appeared in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies in 2019. It has now become available online, in full and for free, here.
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(Cat and Girl) The Gilded Age of Pop
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
This is the third and final part (I, II) of our series tackling the complicated and still debated question of ‘how bad was the fall of Rome (in the West)?’ In our first part, we looked at the question through the prism of ‘words’ – language, culture, religion and literature. There we found a lot…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) Dangerous Visions and New Worlds
An anthology looks back at science fiction’s New Wave.
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(QC RSS) Dump Stat
Suddenly, goblins!
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancellation and the Great Resignation by Michael Brazier
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. No, sir. In your original post you yourself raised the specific question: Can it be right to demand that the associates of a person cut their connections with him, on the grounds that he has performed immoral acts which canno…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancellation and the Great Resignation by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Brazier. Virtually every phrase in your comment is an example of exactly what I was criticizing in my post. Let me take it piece by piece. “Cancel culture” is noted for ending employments, not because the employee or employer is di…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancellation and the Great Resignation by Michael Brazier
“Cancel culture” is noted for ending employments, not because the employee or employer is dissatisfied with the contract, but at the behest of third parties, and for reasons not related to the employee’s actions under the contract. Th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Going Out in Style by Cancellations and the Great Resignation | Policy of Truth
[…] issues. Though I sympathize with academics who lose their jobs to “woke mobs”–having lost one myself under similar circumstances–I don’t think they suffer anything comparable to medical patients whose procedures …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancel Culture: A Recantation by Cancellations and the Great Resignation | Policy of Truth
[…] to my hometown were canceled. I’ve previously written about the disruptions that arise from cancellations in the context of health care. Each of these sorts of cancellation is a nullification of a prior arrangement or agreement on [R…
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