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Logically entails (or implies), yes. I don't think that what you are talking about here is the same as what the OP and the rest are talking about. I l...
August 01, 2020 at 07:03
Hm? I wonder how such an argument would go?
July 31, 2020 at 17:37
I think you are conflating facts about moral evaluations, moral conduct, and all that which influences them - with moral facts: It is a fact that mora...
July 31, 2020 at 08:11
"Objective morality" is often used interchangeably with "moral realism," but that doesn't clarify things much. As Crispin Wright quipped, "a philosoph...
July 30, 2020 at 16:18
I don't know why you make so much of this. I am obviously not well-read in this area, but even a cursory search shows that the word "objective" and it...
July 30, 2020 at 12:18
The more traditional interpretations treat the equation as only one component that is needed to determine the actual physical state - position, moment...
July 30, 2020 at 07:15
Thanks for the context and clarification. I was leery about going along with "objectivist," but I thought Randianism was obscure and disreputable enou...
July 29, 2020 at 18:54
Well, I have a mostly pop-sci "knowledge" of QM, my college physics being too rusty to be of much use, but as far as I know the "pilot wave" of Bohmia...
July 29, 2020 at 15:41
Relativism is most commonly associated with the view that what is moral is defined by the moral standards of one's culture. In that sense it still has...
July 29, 2020 at 07:34
More like subjectivist.
July 28, 2020 at 20:19
I don't much care for forum polls, but I thought that this was pretty clear formulation of the question. No, I don't think I am a moral objectivist (w...
July 28, 2020 at 17:49
Of course the intention of Divine Command Theory is not to serve human flourishing. You might instead try to argue that the intension of DCT includes ...
July 28, 2020 at 17:16
Here you are asking the question: "What is common to all moral imperatives?" If there were such a common feature, I would not call it grounding, much ...
July 28, 2020 at 17:03
This is only assuming that all of the relevant data is being sampled. Assuming Bohm's interpretation, for example, you can never sample the value of t...
July 28, 2020 at 16:48
You can't be serious! Although to say that Kant scholars dispute the meaning of what he wrote isn't saying much. Even Hume scholars advocate radically...
July 27, 2020 at 08:18
You are kind of all over the place in terms of posing the question, which is the single most important thing in philosophy. At times you seem to be ar...
July 26, 2020 at 13:50
I had to read this a couple of times: at first I thought that your colleague was responding to a different question. I can kind of see some connection...
July 26, 2020 at 07:17
From your title I assumed you meant 'gloomy' or even 'malevolent' philosophers, rather than simply obscure. Anyway, as someone wisely noted, "unclear ...
July 25, 2020 at 14:58
It almost seems like you've heard about the "naturalistic fallacy" and about the "is-ought gap," and that the former is to be avoided and the latter i...
July 25, 2020 at 14:22
No. First, let's make a distinction between human beings and societies: the former are moral agents, the latter are not. Second, let's make a distinct...
July 24, 2020 at 20:15
Or more precisely, when the carriers produce viable offspring. Quality of life, which is what we usually associate with "flourishing," does not enter ...
July 24, 2020 at 18:29
See, you are doing precisely what I suspected you of doing: you are working backwards from your thesis (that the foundation of morality is 'human flou...
July 24, 2020 at 18:24
Don't worry, you are telegraphing the standard is-ought move loud and clear. Yup...
July 24, 2020 at 07:58
That's just manifestly not true. I think you would be hard-pressed to come up with more than a few and recent literary or documentary examples of such...
July 24, 2020 at 07:53
Does it matter? Do you hold your intelligence contintgent on the intelligence of people you are arguing with?
July 21, 2020 at 10:16
You keep saying this as if it was self-evident. Now, if you'd never before encountered this problematic, never had anyone contradict you, it wouldn't ...
July 21, 2020 at 07:57
It's not an interesting retort anyway, because if a formula is true but not provable, we can just make it an axiom in a higher system, so it would be ...
July 20, 2020 at 16:20
Well, that would mean that the self is a hidden essence. But what we are inquiring about and trying to explain is the manifest self as it is perceived...
July 20, 2020 at 07:55
All of these positions can be seen as reductionist, in that they treat personal identity as a product or manifestation of something more real or funda...
July 19, 2020 at 10:51
"Breaking things down into smaller pieces" is not a good way of describing fundamental physics research. Simple mereology works decently well with eve...
July 16, 2020 at 07:20
I don't see how this gets you away from the is/ought gap. If the criterion of moral evaluation of something is whether it seems right or wrong, then y...
July 12, 2020 at 14:32
Depends on what you mean. 1. Events in the future are (not) fixed by the state of the universe now. I read this as implying that there is a uniquely c...
July 12, 2020 at 09:44
If this statement referred only to your own instantaneous "hedonic experience" then depending on details your theory might be something like emotivism...
July 09, 2020 at 07:27
No, I haven't seen that thread. Your facts are what you like to call "hedonic" whatsit, which you are supposed to collect, optimize and process and in...
July 08, 2020 at 17:20
What is curious about yours and @"Pfhorrest"'s approaches is not their differences but their similarity. Both of them blithely skip over the is-ought ...
July 08, 2020 at 16:36
By this logic, Last Thursdayism is the most parsimonious explanation!
July 08, 2020 at 06:56
Time and causality are some of the most involved topics in philosophy, if nothing else then because they have received a lot of attention from philoso...
July 08, 2020 at 06:53
Again, you are quoting something but not addressing what you quote. And again, it is unclear what you are aiming at with your posts. If you are just s...
July 01, 2020 at 20:11
I don't see how this is addresses the part of the discussion that you quoted. Also I am not sure what "it" refers to in the last sentence. Finding the...
July 01, 2020 at 18:50
That is the responsibility of science though. Mathematics in this case is only a tool and a language of science. Well, that is a very strange thing to...
July 01, 2020 at 16:33
Both morality and law are normative. The difference is only in that (in some places) the latter is more institutionalized. But this is a distinction i...
July 01, 2020 at 15:26
I think you are mixing up two senses of expectation. There is expectation as a plausible anticipation, a forward model. We may reasonably expect peopl...
July 01, 2020 at 07:25
Math as such is not about finding out things about the world. Math is about finding out things about math, nothing more, nothing less. Sure, the direc...
June 30, 2020 at 18:14
Yes. The more I learn about different philosophical perspectives, the more I lean towards pluralism. They don't even have to be radically different pe...
June 30, 2020 at 15:12
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I am gonna go ahead and Godwin the thread.
June 27, 2020 at 22:45
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I would be complaining if he was posting 25 stupid OPs a month (as some do). One OP in two years? Meh. Not worth hurting his feelings.
June 27, 2020 at 20:22
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Meh, the guy had what, 25 posts in two years? Granted, they weren't any good, but there was no pressing need to get rid of him. Good call about the ot...
June 27, 2020 at 20:05
Life's particular trick is neither in storing energy nor in reducing its entropy. It's more about the dynamics, which can be expressed in such metrics...
June 27, 2020 at 14:51
I think most of what "Gnostic Christian Bishop" dumps on the forum is a pretty clear case of theology*, and he doesn't even make any effort to disguis...
June 27, 2020 at 10:15
You already started a thread on this yesterday. Why did you abandon that discussion just to post another OP with the same ignorant tosh?
June 27, 2020 at 09:51