Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Dynamic Illumination
taking off her shirt acts as a flashbang
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to David Potts. I submitted the dissertation in 2006, defended it in March 2008, was awarded the degree in August 2008, and started at Felician about a week later. The gap between submission and defense arose because my manuscript somehow got …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) by David Potts
I had no idea you defended so recently. That’s just two years before me! So, we both had circuitous routes to finishing. Your remembrance of MacIntyre reminds me of my undergraduate advisor, Paul Woodruff, who died somewhat publicly about a year …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Death, Desolation, and Tyranny”: Israel in Jenin by Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) | Policy of Truth
[…] might think it a long way from South Bend to Jenin Refugee Camp, or MacIntyrean Catholicism to BDS, or Whose Justice? to Resistencia en Acción, but once you […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance in Action by Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) | Policy of Truth
[…] long way from that to Jenin Refugee Camp, or MacIntyrean Catholicism to BDS, or Whose Justice? to Resistencia en Acción, but once you really read that paragraph, you come to know better. MacIntyre knew, better than any […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
My mentor Alasdair MacIntyre died this past Wednesday, at the age of 96. The last time I spoke to him in person was 2008, on the occasion of my dissertation defense. It had taken me seventeen years, from matriculation to defense, to finish the degree, and even at the defense itself, it was very far…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Trouble brewin’
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mary Worth 5/26/25 OK, sorry, it’s very funny that Wilbur’s instinct upon stumbling onto this perfectly insane scene…
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(Our World in Data) What are international dollars?
International dollars are used to compare incomes and purchasing power across countries and over time. Here, we explain how they’re calculated and why they’re used.
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(QC RSS) Can’t Fault It
Liz is very smart
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(xkcd.com) Mass Spec
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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