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The Golden Rule is a recipe for immorality, because it can be used to justify whatever prejudice one harbors. For instance, ‘if I were a homosexual, I...

This strikes me as appealing to those who only think they’re not religious, that is, who are not religious only in the sense that they do not actively...

I dunno. Seems like he’s developing a cult following.

Some believe that it is best not to assume a direct correlation between a person’s philosophical perspective and their behavior in social situations. ...

I’m not sure how you would formally define the concept of blame, but it seems hard to avoid the connotation of blame when one accuses another of being...

Sure is. Especially the part about morality being a trick of the weak to constrain the strong. This is what Nietzsche called ressentiment.

Someone’s been reading Nietzsche.

I hadnt intended those remarks on realist and subjectivist morality for you, although it’s true that I figured you would see them. That I find certain...

You god-denying heretic

I’m with you here. I find both moral realism and moral subjectivism to be fairly nauseating, but my own touchstones on the subject of morality are so ...

Great video, thanks

Rather than a duality, what is implied here is a reciprocal dependence. Mind is defined by what matters to it, which is contributed by the material re...

Not only that, it reveals an implict doubt and self-questioning that directly correlates with the intensity of dogmatic certainty.

Aren’t actions themselves forms of questions we put to our world, experiments anticipating a response which may either validate or invalidate the acti...

It may be that in dealing with socially consequential values we are bound up in territory that in by its nature transcends the relevance of truth clai...

I’m going to give my argument another try. A notion such as a moral obligation to prevent environmental catastrophe is too important, too complex and ...

You’re ignoring what kinds of significant practical reorientations of thinking are required in order to arrive at such a changed view. This isn’t a ga...

By my reckoning we could replace moral facts with empirical facts and end up in the same quandary. Imagine two worlds: 1. The earth is round but every...

And there are no practical consequences to changing one’s view from ‘it is true that homosexuality is sinful’ to ‘it is false that homosexuality is si...

Is the belief that homosexuality is sinful a moral belief?

I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who still believe in quaint notions like ‘foundational good’. I wouldn’t say they are simply wrong. I wo...

This isn’t self-interest, its shared interest, which is not simply the sum of selfish drives. Oughtness doesn’t precede the feeling of oughtness, and ...

Socially shared patterns of coordination express cultural ways of life that we aim to preserve. Ken Gergen puts it this way:

Let’s examine point 4 and work backward from it. Is life to be understood as the mere co-existence of separate parts? Is there no ‘ought’ to be found ...

If you don’t live in a large northern American city, move to one. Then the possibility of another Trump presidency may not seem so daunting. In Chicag...

Perhaps. But you can’t know that for sure without familiarizing yourself with some of the scholarship behind my claims. Maybe I’m just doing a bad job...

Do you also want to make this hard and fast distinction between technological and scientific know-how? We build computers but we don’t build concepts ...

The Wizard of Oz gave me a PhD. What your comment says to me is that the company I keep in philosophy of science and cognitive science is far removed ...

Tiny craftsmen and masons have to allow the material they shape and mold to guide their efforts based on how that material lends itself to , affords a...

The question is, what sort of notion of a thing do you have in mind, and how was it formed? The original notion of scientific ‘thing’ or object that c...

[ We don’t need to delve into physiology to demonstrate how what we see is importantly determined by how we put together the pieces, and more fundamen...

I’m not getting the impression you’re grasping what Wayfarer is aiming at here. For phenomenology, it’s not just that the world appears to us as pheno...

To the extent that I would locate something like a universal aspect of reason, it would be neither in anything external to the mind nor within the min...

When Husserl talks about sense data, he is not taking the naive realist position that there are concept or intention-independent features of the world...

What we see is a function not simply of what random pixels of shape and color happen to impinge on our retinas. It is a function of what patterns we a...

Following Husserl, there are different components that contribute to what we see. We perceive the actual flower in front of us but apperceive the empi...

What I meant was that the idea of a spatial object as a persistingly self-identical thing enduring throughout changes in perspective is something we s...

I didn’t mean to suggest they a baby has to wait till it is informed of a social construct till it can recognize an object as a flower. What I meant w...

But then we have to ask what sense it makes to talk about what computers are, have or feel ‘in themselves’ , as though there were such a thing as a co...

Feelings of Being is a good starting point, since it captures his fully developed notion of moods like grief and depression.

I look forward to your rant.

Or we could say that these are two types of phenomenological experience, experience given to us in distinctly different modalities. If I see an actual...

This take on the emotions seems to be the foil for Heidegger’s integrative approach to affect, feeling, mood and emotion:

Feldman-Barrett’s alright, but predictive processing approaches are a bit behavioristically reductive for my taste. I find Matthew Ratcliffe’s work to...

In the above quote, emotion is considered as some kind of substance that is added to the mix of mentation and behavior, as though we could imagine fun...

The impossibility of communication on important issues is a historical fact, which is to say, it is a product of historically situated philosophical a...

The concerns you express here address our epistemic and empirical goals within the confines of our paradigmatic schemes, but those paradigmatic ground...

There are lots of degrees and levels of agreement within science, and just as many degrees and levels of incommensurability. Among participants in a s...

In the case of the constitution of a real spatial object via the synthesis of perspectival adumbrations, passage to the limit never succeeds in fulfil...

I think your summary captures the idea. The meaningful sense of what is true and what is false is only coherent relative to a background intelligibili...