Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I deserve credit for telling you to write it down. LikeLike

I took the liberty of adding a “read more” tab, and corrected a typo: you wrote “chapter 3” when you meant chapter 4. More substantive comments later this week. LikeLike

Previously, within “Primacies of Existence” (linked above), I had written: Primacy of existence runs also against Kant when he writes that “apperception, and with it thought, precedes all possible determinate arrangement of presentations” (…

I’ve been playing around with this analysis or account of a certain central sort of desert, one form of which is covered in Sher’s Desert, chapter 3 (concerning one deserving success due to diligent effort, hard work, etc.; other sorts of desert in the same family would include deserving credit — admiration or honors perhaps…

[…] way of committing moral suicide. I have no qualms about the moral sanctuary I found in academia and health care. In one sense, I managed to get my hands dirty. But in a more fundamental sense, I kept them […] LikeLike

[…] expeditious way of committing moral suicide. I have no qualms about the moral sanctuary I found in academia and health care. In one sense, I managed to get my hands dirty. But in a more fundamental sense, I […] LikeLike

[…] *It took awhile, but I eventually wised up. This review of Sarah Chayes’s The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban earned me the author’s exasperation and contempt, but seems to have stood the test of time. S…

Frederick Kagan in The New York Times, on the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban: Reasonable people can disagree about the wisdom of keeping American military forces in Afghanistan indefinitely, even at very low numbers. I and others have argued that the investment, including the risk to American personnel, is worth it to prevent militant groups from once again…

I think it may be time to take down the paywall on this article from Foreign Affairs: Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires By Milton Bearden November/December 2001