Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. You mean speaking American? Aka “Freedom Talk.” If we hadn’t fought a whole revolutionary war against the English, we’d all be speaking English right now. And be drinking tea worth drinking. Thank a…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “it’s just a plagiarized version of Riesbeck’s ‘reaching for a cup of water’ example” Expect to face academic honesty charges shortly. LikeLike

“I think he’s referring primarily to the pro tanto rather than the prima facie.” Ooh, fancy Latin. This is America! Speaking English is a sine qua non of intelligible communication. LikeLike

[…] mishandles category (4). Here I’m repeating a criticism I made (to Michael Young) in the comments of an earlier blog post. It’s essential to Sher’s account of (4) that it involve altruistic cases of rescue […] LikeLike

Chapter 3 of Sher’s Desert offers what might be described as a dialectical exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of an expected-consequence account of desert (“dialectical” is my term, “exploration” is Sher’s). An expected consequence account of desert says that, properly understood and specified, we deserve the expected consequences of our actions. Before I describe…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’m not entirely sure where, or how much, we are disagreeing here. There is the hard issue of whether, or under what conditions, market processes and results track desert (and what type of desert). It seems plausible th…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I really enjoyed the poem. And: that is exactly where I stand on the Safe Harbor Principle. I suspect that it should protect against more than just aggregation, but I haven’t thought about it enough. Maybe some of that …

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Not even 1/2 getting it (frowny-face)… Okay ‘petrichor’ got it 1/2-ways now. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Sure, but “blowing up” a case that has been used to support a hypothesis in order to undermine that hypothesis is pretty effective rhetorically. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. If you just know the meaning of “petrichor” you can get the (relevance-to-this-blog-post) half that doesn’t depend on Doctor Who. LikeLike