Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I just read your 2008 blog post on the Kochtopus, which I hadn’t read before: https://aaeblog.com/2008/05/05/shadow-of-the-kochtopus/ I certainly agree with your take, but have to add a bit of an indignant postscript. In 1997, people at IHS invit…

In reply to Roderick Tracy Long. I see how sending money TO the Kochs (should anyone be so foolish as to do so) would count as complicity in their injustices. It’s less clear to me how accepting money FROM them so counts. I think it could. Let me set …

In reply to boydstun. Thanks for reading. Yes, I remember from our 2013 seminar in Glen Ridge that you had friends in Montclair. I know Midland well; it was one of the roads on my bike route when I lived in the area. Barbara lived right by the park. Fo…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Thank you. I doubt she was aware of the fictional Barbara Gordon. Barbara’s knowledge of popular culture was about as spotty as mine; she mostly lived elsewhere. When she knew about pop culture, it was usually a matt…

Thanks for sharing your memories of her, Irfan. (I used the Edgemont Park for running whenever I visited my friends who lived in Montclair. They lived just over on Midland, so it was very convenient.) LikeLike

Very sorry to hear of this. Was she aware of the famous fictional Barbara Gordon? LikeLike

I just got news today, a week after the fact, of the untimely passing of my friend and colleague Barbara Gordon, Associate Professor of Music and Instructor in French at Felician University. Hired about a year before I was (2007), Barbara essentially built the university’s music department and program (including its choir) from the ground…

How do policies on childhood vaccinations vary across the world?

I see how sending money TO the Kochs (should anyone be so foolish as to do so) would count as complicity in their injustices. It’s less clear to me how accepting money FROM them so counts. “It’s not clear to me how many people actually do …

Christopher Freiman challenges academics who object to Koch grants on ethical grounds but are willing to accept government grants: Many academics object to Koch grants but not government grants. As far as I can tell, the objections to the former apply with equal or greater force to the latter. Consider two: 1) The Kochs have committed…