That's still the opposite of what I'm saying despite your specific meanings (noted - thanks). Wittgenstein and Ramsey aren't simply saying we can't ho...
It's not what it's the 'study of' which differentiates naturalism in this context. I could read Tarot cards and would be quite accurate in saying that...
Who said anything about 'order'. It is not necessary to frame moral feelings as an 'order'. The feeling that I ought to do X is not necessarily an ord...
What you said was Where, in that statement, is the additional information confirming that what is clear to you "if I tell myself to do X, that does 'n...
So what is true is just that which seems to you to be true, but what is right cannot be that which seems to you to be right? You're saying that if I t...
This is muddled. Criticism is not the opposite of dogmatism as a general approach and relativism is not the opposite of universalism. As per Wittgenst...
What other approach would you advise? Given that evidence, rational conclusion, intuition...all severely underdetermine theory, we're left with either...
No. If you want to paraphrase it like that it would be ""some people don't believe in moral universalism therefore moral universalism is not a good an...
On what basis do you make this claim? That's literally all of morality. Morality is about how we treat others. If there are no 'others' being affected...
Thanks, I'll mention it to my therapist. So if it is possible for professional philosophers to defend stupid views cleverly you've still not given any...
Again what difference does that make to my argument? An individual doing it is no quicker than an institution doing it, they're no more able to predic...
No, because or model of what is real assumes a shared external source of our sensation, Our model of what feels good does not. No, because I didn't sa...
Then what do you mean by I could go on, I honestly wasn't expecting the search to yield so many results. Central to the support of your premises is th...
Yep. More than once. But I don't hold grudges. Then I'll ask again. Are metaethicists not professional philosophers? Or do you have some definition of...
You've answered you own question. Yet again, for some reason, assuming everyone but you is an idiot waiting to be instructed. How do you suppose those...
No, I'm well aware of the fact that you're talking about a dynamic world adapting to satisfy people's changing appetites in real time. I'm saying that...
Yes. I should not have forgotten the duty on the part of the scientist, as you say I think you're right here, it's really important to keep in mind th...
What kind of argument is that? It amounts to nothing more than "if you don't see things the way I do there's nothing to say". Well then I have to ask ...
It's quite simple. Either philosophy has an externally demonstrable measure of 'expertise' or it does not. If it does, then the fact that virtually ev...
The issues with it don't go away if you ignore them. Your argument for this rests upon that which is self-evident to reason being determined by the at...
I'm talking about the defence of @"baker"'s accusation that To counter that you'd have to show that your system is, in fact, possible to apply. A syst...
What makes you say that? Sure. People have experiences, they talk to each other about them - have done for hundreds of thousands of years. We strive t...
Just stating how it seems to you at first glance doesn't really help, obviously the argument moved past what appeared to us to be the case at first gl...
Those things being different doesn't imply that they're not both caused by stimuli and response. Having a finger move by electric shock is different t...
How do you know those are two different things? No. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=neuroscience+of+volutary+action&btnG= No...
Of course we do. 'Bad' is not synonymous with 'feels bad currently'. So in order to know whether first person experiences of suffering are 'badly we n...
We do. It moves because some external trigger sets off a chain of neural signals which evetually lead to acetylcholine being released from motor neuro...
Yes, I think that's true - in that it's missing from a neurological account. But that would be a matter of translation wouldn't it? The question the f...
Again, how are you reaching this conclusion absent of a thorough survey of that which neuroscience does, in fact, know about the brain? Also, if seein...
You've misunderstood the analogy. I'm saying that the 'pain' a doctor deals with is psycho-physiological and responds to medicines based on it's psych...
What is it that you think stipulating/remembering these two issues helps with? Who said anything about explaining it by saying 'because of actions in ...
Agreed, but there's perfectly adequate models of intention in neuroscience. No (although it is). Right now I'm asking you to explain why you think it ...
But that would be sensing the neuron, not the tree. You're asking how sensing the tree produces the feelings you have. The answer is that the external...
What would an answer to that request be like? I mean how would you know you've had such an answer. I could say - your occipital cortex starts a chain ...
What on earth makes you think all that hasn't already happened in our long history of social interaction. Have you read the Lord of the Rings? Are you...
No, we were nowhere near there... same old, same old... Yes, pretence pisses me off far more than perhaps it has any right to - one of my many flaws. ...
Not at all. I might very successfully travel to London by following the instructions "Head North". It's not necessary for me to be able to actually ge...
Metaethicists are philosophers, right? Or are you trying to claim that philosophy departments don't have metaethicists? So when you say The 'experts' ...
And here I though we might be dealing with something more interesting than the boring old internet messiah. My primary objection to your hedonism-as-e...
Then how do you justify your previous measure of self-evident premises as being those which professional philosophers deem self-evident after receivin...
Funnily enough, I often repeat the same aphorism. I have no problem at all with the sentiment, only the enaction. No, I included that. Reading other t...
Again, It's these 'plenty of people' who I've never heard of. Retributions as an end in itself - really? I find that very hard to believe, that no amo...
No. Antinatalism would be the most effective means (in that case). Even if we ignore the patent absurdity of someone wanting to prevent any condition ...
What Kant does and does not deny is not the same category as we were discussing. The point is that when you rebut arguments against hedonism's ignorin...
@"Benkei"'s argument is not about what it is possible to do, but about what one is morally obliged to do. It is not a sufficient argument to merely sh...
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