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I asked it where moral relativism fit in with philosophy and it came back with this Philosophy Ethics/Moral Philosophy Meta-Ethics: The

I asked it where moral relativism fit in with philosophy and it came back with this Philosophy Ethics/Moral Philosophy Meta-Ethics: The study of moral thought, language, and properties Moral Realism: Belief that there are objective moral facts Moral Anti-Realism: Denial of the existence of objective moral facts Moral Relativism: The belief that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint I thought that was pretty good, what do you think?

beepbooptheory 3y ago
Haha I think it's fine. I think its kinda cheeky answering you so literally, giving it an actual place to fit into :). I don't doubt it can do, like, Wikipedia type classification ok, but that's not like really getting to the substance of anything! And, either way, its not like there is one decided-upon hierarchy of concepts like this people consciously work within. This is a fine picture to some, but others might contest, perhaps, that Meta-Ethics is the "study of moral thought, language, and properties." What is "moral language" anyway? Why is it meta relative to Moral Philosophy writ-large? Or perhaps one might argue that we need to think of meta-ethics as a sibling rather than child. The whole discipline is a mess of different thoughts and possible rebuttals and grand intellectual overturnings that will not be captured here. Maybe just try pasting that back into the prompt and asking "what's wrong with this picture?". But like I said, its fine in that its fairly comparable to Wikipedia for utility, (with IMO a worse interface, but I get why people like it more).
- bottlepalm 3y ago
  Yea I don’t think it was trained on any hierarchy in particular, ChatGPT literally came up with this on the fly. There’s even more to it I didn’t include to keep the post small. Just really impressive to have a conversation with it that goes all sorts of places. I don’t know any philosophy professors so this is the next best thing.

beepbooptheory 3y ago

Haha I think it's fine. I think its kinda cheeky answering you so literally, giving it an actual place to fit into :). I don't doubt it can do, like, Wikipedia type classification ok, but that's not like really getting to the substance of anything! And, either way, its not like there is one decided-upon hierarchy of concepts like this people consciously work within. This is a fine picture to some, but others might contest, perhaps, that Meta-Ethics is the "study of moral thought, language, and properties." What is "moral language" anyway? Why is it meta relative to Moral Philosophy writ-large? Or perhaps one might argue that we need to think of meta-ethics as a sibling rather than child. The whole discipline is a mess of different thoughts and possible rebuttals and grand intellectual overturnings that will not be captured here. Maybe just try pasting that back into the prompt and asking "what's wrong with this picture?". But like I said, its fine in that its fairly comparable to Wikipedia for utility, (with IMO a worse interface, but I get why people like it more).

bottlepalm 3y ago
Yea I don’t think it was trained on any hierarchy in particular, ChatGPT literally came up with this on the fly. There’s even more to it I didn’t include to keep the post small. Just really impressive to have a conversation with it that goes all sorts of places. I don’t know any philosophy professors so this is the next best thing.