Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to sean samis. The idea that science “settles matters” while philosophy doesn’t is serious misleading. Now if “settling” is understood to mean “reaching universal agreement,” then neither science nor p…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Hi Irfan, I’m pretty sure that by “sheer conformity and status quo bias,” Caplan did not mean to be speaking of Western values. I presume he thinks these are foibles of human nature everywhere that have a la…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The West did trade in that crappy Roman numeral system for the snazzier Arabic one. LikeLike

In reply to sean samis. Hi Sean, I did not equate libertarian society with a market-based society. I only said the first requires the second, and that that is what matters for the question of needing impersonal prosociality and also encouraging it. No …

[…] is a memorial essay for Barbara Gordon, written by my friend Yvonne Raley, formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy at Felician […] LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. It’s SUEZ, man. Flew said that he was including in his history “no materials from any sources easy of Suez.” Suez is the bright line that separates argument from non-argument. Suez is an a priori category…