Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Lorenz Kraus is (or was) a candidate for US Senate, based in Troy, New York. My knowledge of his candidacy is based on about ten minutes’ Internet search after he sent me a crank email cc’d to Counter-Currents Publishing, a white nationalist website, among other recipients. Ten minutes is all it took to figure out…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. As a postscript to my comment: it does happen to be the case that if you read IOE very carefully, you’ll find Rand slipping into some odd constructivist language about concept formation. I can’t find it offhand, b…

Here’s what you say on causation: Sometimes our language of cause or determination works in the way that I was fixed on (as with ‘the cause’ being used to specify an element of the total cause that is salient to us in some context, thus in part …

I actually found this “autobiography of error” post very helpful, despite the fact that it wasn’t my error. It nicely models how to work through an error. It’s actually something I do a lot at work–commit errors, then sit …

Most of the world’s farmers are smallholders. They are also often the poorest. How much of the world’s food do they produce?

In reply to Suleman Khawaja. That should be a post of its own, and you should become our resident hospitalist blogger. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I think you deserve Oasis. LikeLike

Desert basis? I think you misspelled “desert oasis.” LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. To put the broader issue in perspective, the abyss into which we are currently plunging with Delta in the US is not primarily the fault of the public health community; it’s primarily the fault of people who’ve ref…