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by jackson1372 10y ago
I'm a PhD student who studies this stuff. This article is, quite simply, poorly argued. Most importantly, there's nothing in here that directly argues against the information processing metaphor. The author gives a bad argument th
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by jackson1372 10y ago
At Harvard, officially-recognized groups cannot use race/gender/sexual-orietation/religion as a qualification for membership. So, yes, a white person can join the Black Student Association. And yes, a male can join Women in B
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by jackson1372 10y ago
Author here. Think about how all this would sound if you were talking about race instead of gender and see if you'd still agree. If you don't still agree, try to figure out why. We find it gross to say things like "Whites and
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by jackson1372 11y ago
I drink Soylent 2.0 everyday. Definitely doesn't taste like glue. I has a very mild, but quite pleasant, vanilla-y taste. It kind of tastes like liquid cheerios. It tastes good enough that I have cravings for it. But it's not so s
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by jackson1372 11y ago
> If you have powerful computer from 2010, it'll happily run Windows 10 and almost any application, including almost any game in medium (or even high) mode. I wonder, whether this race on mobile platform will continue or iPhone 6S w
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by jackson1372 11y ago
A really fascinating personal story. One thing that bothered me though: The author's wife quit her job to become a full-time mom. I would guess that the author was only able to have so much professional success because of this. Perhaps
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by jackson1372 12y ago
While we can distinguish between first-order moral relativism and metaethical relativism, it's widely accepted that the former implies the latter. So it's not uncontroversial to say that you can be an objectivist moral relativist.
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by jackson1372 12y ago
Under moral relativism, you can accept that other people have different moral tastes, just as you can accept that other people have different tastes for food. But you cannot accept that such tastes are subject to normative assessment, makin
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by jackson1372 12y ago
> "I agree that people don't actually think like that, but that doesn't prove that moral facts exists, just that many people think they do." I think this is all the author wants to prove. We, as a society, seem to be
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by jackson1372 12y ago
> "My only claim extends as far as I can act or influence others to act to serve my own needs and wants." That egoism, not moral relativism. I took it that the author was making the following point about our society: we teach t
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by jackson1372 12y ago
Moral relativism is incompatible with judgements that other's moral judgements are wrong. You can judge someone else's views as wrong while still tolerating them. One other things: > "You don't need to believe that
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by jackson1372 12y ago
I use taste just because it's the most widely-accepted instance where subjectivism applies. But, certainly, a substantial minority will hold that for certain kinds of tastes, objectivism holds. If you think there are meaningful disag
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by jackson1372 12y ago
But the point is that, as a society, we don't treat moral sentiment as taste. For instance, when someone murders another person, we don't say: "Well, that person just likes murdering people. Who are we to disagree?!" Ins
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by jackson1372 12y ago
Contemporary academic philosophy is full of rigorous logic. Either you're ignorant of what actual academic philosophers do, or you can't recognize rigorous logic when you see it.
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by jackson1372 12y ago
The point of the article is not to prove that values are objective. Rather, the point is to undermine the fact/opinion distinction. If moral sentiments were mere opinion, then there'd be no point to arguing over whether some actio
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by jackson1372 12y ago
1. To save money and to eat more healthily. Also, my girlfriend realy appreciates home/cooked meals. 2. We plan out 4 dinners per week. I'm responsible for two of them. I get her two preferences, make a shopping list, and go groce
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by jackson1372 13y ago
The author makes a number of logical errors. For example: > To...generate a perfect facsimile of reality down to the last atom would take more energy than the universe has. Right. But the problem is that the only universe we know about i
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by jackson1372 13y ago
"he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees" Dean Hammonds is a woman.
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by jackson1372 14y ago
(As a current Philosophy PhD Student...) PG's essays are consistently great. Although in this case, I disagree with the central thesis that the history of philosophy is merely a history of confused talk. Certainly, a lot of philosophizing (