Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

boydstun, I just read the Amazon Books summary of Hospers’ manifesto [https://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-Political-Philosophy-John-Hospers-ebook/dp/B00DK19CKU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=] Question: do you think this su…

boydstun; I’d not heard of Henrich’s book before reading David’s post. If I add it to my reading list I might get to it sometime this decade. Maybe. Since you appear to have already read it, you could share with us what results you re…

David, your post is very thought-provoking. I’m still not sure what further thoughts or conclusions it will bring me to. I’ve just started reading Jonathan Rauch’s “The Constitution of Knowledge” which I suspect might rea…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. As a footnote to the preceding comment, how obvious is it that “the West” is open to the “awesomeness” of other cultures? So far, the United States has yet to adopt the metric system. So there’s …

So, this is more a comment on some of the background readings than on David’s post. I’m slowly working through the background readings before I try to digest the post itself. So far I’ve read Caplan and Alexander. I’ve encounter…

Thanks for sharing these, Stephen. I’ve been wanting to encourage people to post about, or actually post, poetry here at PoT. It often gets neglected in our focus on philosophy and politics. I’m curious to know whether you read much poetry,…

In reply to sean samis. Hi Sean, I’m glad you found my post thought-provoking. The paragraph on libertarianism is incidental to the main theme of the post, so feel free to ignore it if you wish. (I somehow have the impression you won’t find…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m afraid I can’t think of what would move this discussion forward. If the idea is that WEIRD and anti-WEIRD values and ideas are floating around in pretty much every culture without either being dominant, the…

In reply to boydstun. Correction LIBERTARIANISM: A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY WHOSE TIME HAS COME LikeLike

In reply to sean samis. Sean, how can libertarian practice possibly be out of step with ‘impersonal prosociality’, given the results on pp. 293-94 in Henrich 2020? There was a man last century who made a living teaching philosophy and writ…