Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Hi Stephen! Thanks for the comments. As you describe the habit here, I think the answer would be ‘yes’ — because the right sorts of motivational structure likely would be present, but implicit. Indeed, this would seem to be a typical …

Michael, would you and the various authors you mention regard someone for which doing the right thing has become a habit and though the habit Socratizes in Nozick’s sense, that is, reasons could be mustered by the actor were she to think on the r…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Fixed! Thanks. LikeLike

Irfan, do you think that if we had a law empowering the making and enforcement of law, and there was no Common Law, and the empowering law (a Constitution adopted by various regions of populations [land possessors]) set out the job of the judiciary and…

Your second and fourth paragraphs seem to be identical. LikeLike

One can do what is morally right without the action having moral worth, as with Kant’s (merely) prudent shopkeeper (not overcharging a naive customer when she easily could). The reason that the shopkeeper’s right action lacks moral worth is, roughly, that she does not have the right sort — the moral sort — of aim…

Back in September the Urban Institute published a ‘blog post arguing that “Equitable Research Requires Questioning the Status Quo”. The author—Lauren Farrell—argued that both “objectivity” and “rigor” were “harmful research practices” that should be rectified. Not surprisingly, this has generated a flurry of responses from persons with more conservative leanings eager to defend “objectivity” and…