Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to cmsciabarra. Well said. Very few of the principal players here inspire confidence–Cuomo, DeBlasio, the nursing home directors, the Republicans, or Letitia James. I have yet to read your blog post, but I totally agree with your comment…

I don’t address the allegations of sexual misconduct in a recent Notablog post, but I do address what I think is the more dangerous legacy of Cuomo—dangerous, ironically, not because it is specific to him, but has now become a public policy…

[…] strange to have so political a reaction to the death of a spouse, but I find myself, in the wake of my wife Alison Bowles’s recent untimely death, seeing the world through her eyes. And she was, if anything, a politically opinionated pe…

It may seem strange to have so political a reaction to the death of a spouse, but I find myself, in the wake of my wife Alison Bowles’s recent untimely death, seeing the world through her eyes. And she was, if anything, a politically opinionated person whose perspective on the world permanently changed the way…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. PS. How is putting me in an ethnic band more problematic than dreaming of me as an abrasive jerk??? LikeLike

In reply to mlyoung57. Well (for a change), there’s nothing there I can disagree with. I just had to chuckle that you see my argument as a contribution to the controversy over woke culture, lol. I hadn’t meant it that way. I first read Hur…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m going to try to read one or both of your papers, and re-read Hursthouse, before I post the second part of this series. I don’t recall if she explicitly says that we can be blamed for thoughts outside of our…

What are the carbon opportunity costs of our diet? How much carbon could we store by regrowing forests and wild habitats on existing farmland?

As an individualist anarchist, I support the right of individuals to own property. To the extent that a property claim is based on labor and free exchange, it is legitimate and should be recognized. “Artificial property” such as IP, subsidies to big business, and government claims to ownership are illegitimate in my view, as their…