Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to boydstun. I wish I had the time to attend even half of the online sessions I see advertised. But I’d like to make the time to engage in a serious study of Kant at some point. LikeLike

In July 1966, Ayn Rand issued the first installment of her treatise Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. She opened the first section “Cognition and Measurement” with an idea that had not appeared in her previous writings: “Consciousness, as a sta…

In reply to alphaandomega21. You have given us much to think about. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’d like to study Dewey’s philosophy of education, and your response to that one book is an encouragement to do so. Maybe I’ll be able to dip into that part of his writings at some point. (I wanted to mentio…

I haven’t read a great deal of Dewey, but in the early 2010s, I was slotted to teach Philosophy of Education at Felician, a course I hadn’t taught before, and wasn’t all that eager to teach. Dewey’s little book Democracy and Edu…

Dear Irfan Hello from the UK. Many thanks for your post. I will cut to the chase; whatever the issue of vaccines in Africa and supply etc, vaccines are in any event utterly pointless. I will explain if I may. some standard text which I adapt to suit as…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. If I come across anything in Dewey by which Rand might have been drawn to this fantastically opposite of Dewey and thought it was Dewey, I’ll let you know. I do NOT think her hatred of Dewey was from THAT view she incor…

Would love to hear why, politics aside, Rand hated Dewey so ardently. Unless “politics aside” is an unfair exclusion. Have you heard the modern activists say: “Act first, think afterward”? They got it from John Dewey. Really? Is “act…