Bob Ross

:grin: Where is your head at these days? I would presume a Kantian with respect to ethics as well, so probably upholding his maxim of universalizabili...

I was debating on creating a new thread, but didn't see the need since this thread essentially morphed into a debate about moral realist accounts vs. ...

I haven't been following this thread, but the CPR is a great read and I would highly recommend reading it. Kant's mode of analysis is brutally frigid ...

No worries at all. I don’t think your posts quite addressed my questions: you seems to be overlooking the metaethical, which foundational to ethics, c...

Thank you for the clarifications! I think I have my little bit more of my bearings, so I would like to hone in on one issue at a time and work our way...

This seems like a non-sequitur to me. Essentially (as far as I am understanding) you arguing: P1: If there is something instead of nothing, then there...

Thank you for the clarifications and elaborations! Let me continue down my line of questioning with respect to key point #1 first, and then move on to...

@"Philosophim" Another way of thinking about key point #1 (that I described) that I just thought of, in terms of what I am thinking you are saying, is...

Hello Philosophim! As always, you never disappoint: your positions are creative, thought-provoking, and substantive. For now, I would like to focus on...

Lol, perhaps I am blind, or perhaps you see things which are not really there.... Imagine a man walks in on a group of people arguing fervently about ...

Unless you mean something other than ‘preference’ by ‘taste’, then they absolutely do. Moral non-cognitivists, like emotivists, hold that our moral ju...

The vast majority I have ever talk to or heard of have held that preferences can be imposed on other people. The only moral anti-realism view that in ...

It depends on what you mean. I cannot do whatever I want in any meaningful, colloquial sense of the term because I must abide by my own moral law--viz...

I largely agree with Amadeus' analysis here. @"Banno"s moral realism seems like it is really just moral cognitivism, and I think they actually agree w...

Then please respond adequately to my previous responses, and demonstrate any incoherencies or inconsistencies with my position. I see. So, for you, an...

Although I don’t want to overgeneralize moral realists, I would say my conversation with Leontiskos is an example of a moral realist that cannot step ...

I would suggest you read my response again: I don't see how anything you noted helped further the conversation.

I don’t think you are being charitable to my position nor are you genuinely trying to understand it. You keep making hateful comments which are either...

I answered this in detail in my response, and you can even find it in the quotes you have of me in your response. I said that the difference is that I...

Why?

I am not incredibly familiar with the literature on truth-bearers and truth-makers, but I am aware of the basic idea. I would say that a truth-maker i...

So, I just disagree with this. Those are referencing the same state-of-affairs, but noting different things that are not in that state-of-affairs. The...

Because it is a taste that I find is important enough to me to enforce. I totally agree with: But, I would say, within my metaethical framework, the r...

Correct. The proposition "there is no ball in my room" is true iff the state-of-affairs in my room is such that it excludes the existence of the ball....

I see what you are saying now, and let me try to address it. B doesn’t have to be a state-of-affairs for my claim to be true. This is just another exa...

Somewhere what I was trying to convey has passed over you, which is fine as I do that too sometimes, so I would like to clarify the points again. My p...

This, in summary, is where the confusion lay: I was thinking you were saying us contemplating what is acceptable/unacceptable counts as moral facts wh...

The statement “only my mind exists” claims that reality is such that my mind only exists. This is true iff reality is such that there are no other min...

It is also worth mentioning that my belief in the moral judgments is, under moral subjectivism, an upshot of my psychology and not a fact about the st...

I think I have pinpointed the crux of our disagreement (and let me know what you think): it is twofold. Firstly, you believe that someone is a moral r...

True. But what you quoted doesn’t reference physical existence, it references existence. This includes any supersensible or platonic realms. What I am...

"santa doesn't exist" is the same as it is false that "santa does exist": either way, it is conveying that the proposition "santa does exist" does not...

:lol: I feel like I just got kicked out of the cool kids table. That response seems a bit harsh and unhelpful. I think I have demonstrated that I am d...

Correct. Correct. I never claimed that, I said: I am a moral cognitivist, just not a moral realist. For moral subjectivism, technically, moral judgmen...

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I have no problem with this, I just don’t agree that it is objective. I would say it is inter-subjective. Something can be independent of me and still...

Moral judgments being biologically motivated does not mean that morals are biological.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but I would say it is true because once one understands that we are talking about the game of chess, there are certain ...

For what it is worth, I couldn't agree with you more on the free will debate article you shared: most scientists just assume there's no free will beca...

By 'moral' language, I mean language which signifies 'what one ought to be doing'; and by 'fact' I mean 'a statement which corresponds to reality such...

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Ok, but, like I said before, someone being in the event of making moral judgments (“considering what counts as acceptable or unacceptable behavior”) i...

It is not tautological, because P1 is not “the totality of existence is reality”: it is “the way reality is does not entail how it ought to be”. The p...

But would you say that this ‘fact of our position in the world’ exists mind(stance)-independently and has ‘moral’ signification? I wouldn’t. Having im...

If I am understanding your concept of ‘social realities’ correctly, then I would say that I accept them but not as objective: they are inter-subjectiv...

If a moral realist were to demonstrate that there was a moral fact which was analogous to the above proposition, such that I just needed to understand...

The reason I am thinking that, in your view, concerns about species’ defects of natural beings is equivalent to morality due to them providing compell...

So, correct me if I am wrong, a moral fact is an event such that there is someone in that event that is considering what counts as acceptable or unacc...

By world, I was meaning it more generically than ‘natural world’: I meant ‘the totality of existence’. So when a religious person says, for example, ‘...

I know you said you aren't starting new conversations, but could you provide some examples (so I can research them)?