Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A word is presented; a curse is squirted. This is part of why curses can be so utterly disconnected from their technical meanings.

[…] my class she does remember, eleven years after the fact. Not that it really matters all that much. Now that we’re both in health care, I suspect that Donna could teach me more than I ever taught […] LikeLike

I was cleaning out some computer files when I came across the folder from my old Felician University office laptop containing all (or most) of my student letters of recommendation. On a lark, I decided to look some of my former students up. Some might call this “stalking”; I call it Pedagogical Outcomes Analysis. Here’s…

Which countries and rivers emit the most plastic to the ocean? What does this mean for solutions to tackle plastic pollution?

In reply to AliJ. Thanks for all of your thoughts on this. I haven’t quite spun the paper out yet, so let’s see what happens! I have to sit down and brainstorm examples of “duplicate genera” in English. One example I thought of …

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.1.0001?seq=1 Some excerpts from the paper itself are here: https://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/34442-descartes-and-rand/ LikeLike