Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks). Stephen, though considerations of self-esteem are often tied up with such hurtful verbal or other hurtful symbolic attacks, it seems there’s something else more primitive in the psyche about it. If I r…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Post-Modernism is a vague, ephemeral, fundamentally irrelevant phenomenon, marginal even in academia, [not] to speak of the wider world beyond higher education. For whatever reason, you’ve turned it into an all-purpose…

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In reply to wyatttravels592014740. Your comment is way, way off topic. But let me answer it anyway. If you really don’t like “wider crusades which just seems to me be getting wilder and wilder with each passing day”, then why do you appear so sympathe…

In reply to mlyoung57. By the way, your reference to the Scanlon book reminds me that I’d like to resurrect our old book discussion group. I was thinking we might start with Scanlon’s book, or Sher’s on Desert. More on that by email, …

In reply to mlyoung57. I’ll have to think about that, but I hadn’t meant to ascribe any view to you about the harms or pains of negative self-estimate. I just meant that your invocation of the “sticks and stones” phrase in your …

In reply to Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks). I don’t think that response really responds to my critique. I also think you’re making a large number of question-begging, and questionable assumptions from the outset. The issue raised by the me…