Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) One-panel Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/27/25 Look, we all associate Cinderella with trying on glass slippers, but canonically, the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alfred Brendel (1931-2025) by boydstun
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thank you, Irfan. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on My First Foreign Visit as Mayor by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. By the way, here’s an intro I wrote to Tuccille’s book:https://web.archive.org/web/20201112001309/https://lfb.org/in-praise-of-toleration/ LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on My First Foreign Visit as Mayor by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. What’s with the social metaphysics? Why would Objectivists have been citing the second-hand influence of another person, rather than citing the influence of that god, that one word: Ego? Shouldn’t each person b…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alfred Brendel (1931-2025) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to boydstun. I wish I had seen Brendel, but never did. We’re blessed to have so many videos of him on YouTube. It was several years after Alison’s death before I was able to enjoy art. There was a distinction between static and dy…
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(QC RSS) No Hugging
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alfred Brendel (1931-2025) by boydstun
I got to see him in Chicago once, on his final tour. I treasure a cd of him playing 3 Beethoven sonatas, including Waldenstein, and the Andante favori. I don’t yet dare play any of our discs in this present sea of grief. Though I’ve put up …
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(xkcd.com) Laser Danger
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 6: Forecasting the Future of Global Health Funding
In the face of potential major cuts to foreign aid, how can we anticipate the impact on global health and effectively direct resources to the areas of greatest need? In this episode, GiveWell’s CEO and co-founder, Elie Hassenfeld, speaks with Principal Researcher Alex Cohen to discuss the forecasting work GiveWell has undertaken to better understand…
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