Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to boydstun. Well, now I am extra puzzled by your view of philosophy as devoid of knowledge, Sean. I gather with a little online search that you have education at a good school, a JD, much experience, and that you are as old as I am old. (I wa…

In reply to sean samis. Here is a link to the pages in Henrich that Stephen Boydstun referred to, in case anyone wants to see them. What he says here is pretty familiar stuff, actually. (You could see also the earlier blog post of mine cited in the pre…

In reply to sean samis. What the summary of the Smithies book show is the incorrectness of your claim above, Sean, that philosophy “is an argumentative pastime devoid of knowledge, possessing only claims and positions.” LikeLike

In reply to boydstun. boydstun; I’m not interested in other examples of better summaries. If the summary of Hosper’s manifesto is poor, then we’re done with it here. It may be a valuable book; it may be BS. I cannot tell and I don&#82…

In reply to sean samis. No. The words describing the book in that link are dimwitted or anyway aimed at luring dimwits. Here is a fair representation of the contents of a philosophy book: https://www.amazon.com/Epistemic-Role-Consciousness-Philosophy-M…

In reply to sean samis. Sean, I only mentioned the title of the Hospers book, because of your remark denigrating philosophy. I think his book is an easy counterexample to the view of philosophy you expressed. LikeLike

In reply to boydstun. Opps – that last link didn’t work out so well. But anyway, I forgot I showed such a case above, at the start of this thread. I’d like to try two more links into that FB Album of mine to see how far they work, on…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thank you, Irfan, for your comment and query. I was pretty sure this was within what you would like to have in your blog. I’ve learned, thanks to the easy internet communications, that my poems resonate—this poem or that—with…

One last comment on Alexander. Am I the only reader at PoT to find passages like this embarrassingly tendentious and uninformed? But opponents of colonialism tend to believe that cultures are valuable and need to be protected in and of themselves. Thi…

Alexander turns Caplan’s thesis on its head by equating “Western Civilization” with “what works,” then detaching the former from any geographic or cultural boundaries. This seems to me to “solve” one problem si…