Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to boydstun. Amnesia is an amazing thing. Your comment reminded me of the fact that in the fall of 2015, I also happened to see Electra performed in a small theater–at Kean University (Union, New Jersey), directed by E. Teresa Choate, au…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Roderick; Regarding, “Physics depends on metaphysical, epistemological, and normative assumptions that cannot themselves be addressed within the framework of physics.” … and yet physicists seem to get along well enou…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan; Regarding “Correct inference is the special province of philosophy, and has been since Plato and Aristotle. Philosophers have cornered the market on it, because philosophy alone studies the whole topic in a comprehensi…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Roderick; Sorry for the delayed response; there were other matters I had to attend to first. In your June 30 response, you referred to “proofs” 13 times, the last 12 of which you should not have. And you omitted one exampl…

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I think the questions you raise about Aristotle in particular are interesting but only tangentially relevant to the deeper questions you raise about your own changed experience with literature and drama of a roughly tragic sort. You can’t be the…

The only time I felt something like catharsis in a tragedy was in a performance of Electra at Court Theater in Chicago. That is a very intimate setting. Here in Lynchburg, the Randolph college mounts a Greek drama every other year, true to all that the…

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