Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Zombies Are Impossible by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to David Potts. Well, they were founded in 2010–an interesting enterprise that I think we should all be more engaged with, since most of the contributors to this blog do more public philosophy than publishing in peer reviewed journals. A…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Zombies Are Impossible by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to David Potts. Right. But I think the view is closer to Kantian than even your comment suggests. On the first point, First, Kant thinks we can know nothing at all about things in themselves (i.e., in the external world), whereas structural …
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(Our World in Data) We just published our new collection of work on Biodiversity
Explore our new collection of work on the topic of biodiversity and wildlife.
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(QC RSS) Hair We Go Again
no long hair is safe in my comic (except Marigold’s)
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(Cat and Girl) Manifesting Destiny
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Middelboe Chronicles, Part 2: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Islamic Wine-Goblets and Christian Adultery | Austro-Athenian Empire
[…] blogged a fair bit about the mediæval courtly-love tradition. (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.) A notable feature of courtly-love literature is that adulterous relationships are often […]
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(Our World in Data) Wild mammals have declined by 85% since the rise of humans, but there is a possible future where they flourish
Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans. But we can turn things around by reducing the amount of land we use for agriculture.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Defy your fears
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(QC RSS) Sparkle Time
Same person also voices Pintsize and Hercules and Yelling Bird
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Zombies Are Impossible by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Hi Stephen. Thanks for the reference to the Smithies book. It looks interesting. But since it’s $70, I will probably not read it. I think zombies should indeed be subject to the moon illusion, Mach bands, and all similar phe…
Got any book recommendations?