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Philosophy: how does it work? Hint: its true even if babies haven't figured it out yet.

• tel 13y ago
  Well, should you take a cultural relativist POV then there's nothing "true" about Kantian ethics—it's a choice of values. It's interesting to see 21mo behavior selecting for those values. If you take the deontological view then this is still a fairly complex behavior to execute. To consider whether this sort of judgement is one that should be fairly placed on the 21mo if it did the same is a challenging mental task. So, perhaps babies are predisposed to heuristics which favor the categorical imperative. That'd be interesting and certainly worth surprise.
• pekk 13y ago
  Many contradictory views are all "philosophy." It's rarely obvious which view is true, if any are.