Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to boydstun. I’m very saddened to read that, but grateful to you for sharing it. It sounds like your sister’s death, like Alison’s, was a “death of despair” of that sort that Case and Deaton discuss in their book…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thank you for all these thoughts, Irfan. I had not revealed until this post that my younger sister’s death last year was by suicide. From the distance that my older sister and I had from her situation and course, it str…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Ah! Synchronicity strikes again. Perhaps it will prove useful somehow. LikeLike

Cool timing that you’re posting this the very day that I’m starting on Reid in the Early Moderns class I’m teaching. LikeLike

In my last (recent) post on this topic, I argued that it seems absurd to blame people, or pass moral judgments of any kind on them, for what they experience in dreams. It follows that it’s absurd to blame, judge, or morally assess someone for having racist dreams, or generally, vicious dreams. But, I suggested, certain…