Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m skeptical of all four permutations: free market left-wing, free market non-left-wing, non-free-market left wing, and neither free market nor left-wing. I’m going through a Cartesian phase, in the hopes that…

“Free-market” approaches and “left-wing” approaches need not, of course, be mutually exclusive: http://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/C4SS-The-Healthcare-Crisis-A-Crisis-of-Artificial-Scarcity-by-Kevin-A.-Carson.pdf LikeLik…

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I work in health care, but have no worked-out view on the political economy of health care. In fact, part of the reason I accepted the (full time) job I currently have, in hospital revenue cycle management, is to clarify my thoughts on that very subject. So I’m open to being schooled on health care…

In reply to boydstun. This is relatively new (published last November). I was unaware of it too. sean s. LikeLike

Book I’d not known of until today, possibly pertinent to assessment of philosophy by Sean. THE FAILURES OF PHILOSOPHY by Stephen Gaukroger (2020). From the publisher: “The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy―and what…

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