I'm not even agreeing with that, really, especially not privileges that are at all due to "race." (I'm putting "race" in quotation marks because I bel...
Do you mean just because of "my"? I read "If moral valuings and my valuings are one and the same" to amount to "If moral valuings and the valuings of ...
Do let's continue this as my favorite sidebar though: discussing how to discuss things, with an emphasis on criticism of how I discuss things, as if t...
I wouldn't call my stance on free speech a "position in the discussion" and re the context you presented it especially doesn't have anything to do wit...
If you're not going to state what the supposed argument is, etc., there's nothing I can do about it. Re the "position comment," if he's just stating t...
Saying that one thing is more likely than something else isn't saying that the more likely thing is the case, unless we're going to argue that unlikel...
https://media.giphy.com/media/a0FuPjiLZev4c/giphy.gif No idea why you'd think I'd even have a "position" in a discussion, much less one based on wheth...
I have no idea where you think you showed that. And again, his comment was in the context of someone stating an argument. I didn't state any arguments...
No one is suggesting that. You had said, "I’m not sure I follow how concepts, ideas, desires, etc are not experiences (albeit internal ones), even acc...
I wasn't endorsing the idea, by the way. I was just saying that it's not an ethical idea. As I said, "Privilege has to do with advantages that someone...
What Isaac was saying wasn't that a broad agreement is useful period. (Not that he'd disagree with that, but that's not what he was saying.) He was sa...
In posts like this, you imply that the right answer hinges on a consensus. But in other posts, you make it clear that if your view isn't the same as t...
No. Less likely to believe things that people say just because they say them. Well, the consequences would be speech consequences (in other words, res...
To the extent that you've actually done a survey on this--posting your present comments in this thread, it seems like no one other than you thinks the...
Conventional definitions of "experience": "direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledge" "something personally encountered...
It has to just be speculation, but one thing that I'd hope would result is that people would be much more skeptical of speech in general. When it's th...
But I didn't say anything like that. I just said that we haven't had slavery in over 150 years. You said that the literal claim is that the present si...
If that's the literal claim then how was I taking it "unreasonably literally"? When we're talking about something with so many variables and a 150+ ye...
In my view, when we're doing philosophy, we need to make literal claims, especially if it's something that's supposed to be important, supposed to hav...
First, regardless of what we're talking about, I don't assume that something that seems like a contradiction to me both (a) would seem like a contradi...
Minds have experiences . . . and lots of other phenomena, too--thoughts, concepts, desires, etc. Phenomena, and properties in general, are what physic...
Are they maybe just utilizing scores on certain sorts of tests? We'd need, for one, to examine whether the tests are really well-designed to tell us s...
That seems like it would be almost impossible to establish. There are so many variables at play, and we'd be trying to connect current data with a sit...
I don't at all buy Bayesian probability, which is what that would have to rely on. At any rate, I also don't pay much attention to politics. (I'm inte...
Privilege doesn't have to do with ethics. Privilege has to do with advantages that someone has--the idea is that it makes it easier for them to get an...
What we'd need to do is look at specific cases of success or a lack of it and figure out what the exact assets or problems are. If we're going to clai...
Okay, but what I'm most dubious about is the claim with respect to ethical normatives. So that's what I was hoping for an example of. And now grumble ...
So this is kind of patronizing, and suggests that you have thought a lot more about it than I have, or at least you understand it a lot better than I ...
For me, one would have to begin by explaining what nonphysical existents are supposed to be in a manner that not only makes some sense, but that assig...
Points in that sense are things that we devise. The world doesn't have them outside of us thinking about things that way. There is no "deeper level" t...
https://media.giphy.com/media/uVtAU2EKHrsgifowFb/giphy.gif Your sense of you is created by your brain. That in no way implies that it's an "illusion."...
One thing at a time. Instead of listening to a 48-minute presentation, reading an entire book, etc. in order to have the question answered--especially...
Another solution is to have an ultimately government-supervised management of the commons, where part of how the commons are run is via public polling...
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