Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I haven’t read this post by Irfan, but I assume it is motivated by an anti-mind, anti-life orientation. But that’s okay, because I am anti-mind and anti-life too. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Re Rand’s review-non-review of Rawls, she would in later work refer back to it as if she has engaged with Rawls himself. And at one point she even forgets what she originally wrote. In “An Untitled Letter”…

John Dewey was 55 years old when he wrote the lectures that soon issued in his 1915 book GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS (GPP). He was by then the dominant voice in American philosophy, and he would continue to be so until early in the Cold War. Charles…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I do myself cast speculative aspersions like that, on books or papers, fully read or skimmed, quite often, but I keep them in my own head. Unless maybe we were just chatting over a beer. LikeLike

I think you’re both missing what strikes me as a relatively straightforward and transparent point. Boiled down to a single proposition, I’m defending a single conditional: If you haven’t read a book, it is wrong to cast aspersions on…

How much does it matter whether or not you are born into a productive, industrialized economy?