It was a hypothetical. I'm not so much interested in discussing the actual papers (you've clearly got a very broad grasp of the issues in developmenta...
I'm not going to pretend to be able to understand things like Godel, but this position sounds like the same conclusion Ramsey came to about deflating ...
So, just to explore these beliefs... Say I could present evidence of babies exhibiting second-personal agency, would you prefer that to be the case? Y...
Yes, that's the bit I was interested in. The idea that children make associations between behaviours and badness before they have fully-developed rati...
I think you've misunderstood my intention regarding the reading suggestions, I meant literally nothing more by it than that you might be interested, a...
It does in psychology. When research methods are shown to be flawed, or problematic (such as Kohlberg's), the data coming out of that research is cons...
Both Hoffman and Commons published over two decades ago. A lot has changed since then, and Kohlberg's methodology would laughed out of the office thes...
Most of Gopnik's work, together with say, Tania Singer's and Karen Wynn is about overthrowing Kohlberg's stages. Newborn babies show empathy, one year...
Thanks. I think you'd enjoy some of the more modern works on child development. There's been a considerable amount of progress since the likes of Rose...
No problem. I've also just noticed your link in another thread to the Cheryl Misak lecture which I didn't know was available (her work on Ramsey is re...
It depends what you mean by 'bad'. Pain, hunger and other physiological states are states whose causes are external to the mind responding to them, it...
You shut down conversation about the actual issue. I'm interested in how people think (that's why I'm here). Your ideas about morality were put off li...
Have you tried “The role of interoceptive inference in theory of mind,” by Sasha Ondobaka, James Kilner, and Karl Friston, Brain Cognition, 2017 Mar; ...
So. You said As far as I'm following the OP you've listed all the meta-ethical positions you've read about, claimed that something is wrong with each ...
So, from where are you getting this idea that moral realism is the equivalent of heliocentrism. Phil Papers Survey has 56.4% lean toward moral realism...
I'm not seeing the difference. If majority agreement does not act as any kind truth-maker then how is it that ideas which have majority support can be...
Fine. The polite way of achieving that is to say something like "let's come back to that, I want to discuss other things", not snipe at someone for 'h...
I see. I think though that such progress was not really about metaphysical commitments as much as expanding the line of answerable questions. During t...
It's not tangential, it's fundamental to the arguments about moral realism. Holding to the idea that we use terms in a consistent and coherent way, wh...
Brilliant work of philosophical investigation "I'm going to ignore the part where there's some issue with one of my central claims and move on to disc...
So when a child goes outside alone to have a 'game' of playing soldiers 'relative competition arbitrates a standing goal'?, When my nephew and his fri...
What I'm asking is what your justification is for saying this. Taking Wittgenstein's 'game' example, there is no 'thing in question' with regards to t...
What about several different objects? Like several quite different things are 'games' but my teacup here definitely isn't one of them. Could it not be...
I think this would be highly unlikely. We can't even agree on what constitutes a 'game', or where exactly the boundaries of 'here' are. The idea that ...
Merely listening isn't sufficient, that still makes the egotistical assumption that you understand, and have the capacity to better judge the quality ...
I agree. I'm arguing here against the opposite view, that moral decisions are (or can be) some kind of rational attempt to find what is 'right' by som...
No it's not, it's humility. It's recognising that others might see things you don't, or in a way you don't understand. Right, which is where we starte...
Indeed, but this has any bearing on what I'm saying. I was talking about the lack of widespread agreement over the method of reaching moral judgements...
Indeed. I'm not sure how you think that impacts on what I said. Normative propositions are always dependent on agreement (otherwise they're commands "...
The 'strength of their reasons' just means the extent to which you agree with them. So all you're saying here is "I don't care about what other people...
Yes. again, I'd be tempted to look to cultural reasons. We have a limited capacity to reliably remember the trust status of individuals (the infamous ...
Right, so all you've done is kicked the can down the road, now we're talking about your judgement as to whether you've 'accounted' for those reasons o...
But an 'ought' is a feeling that some state of affairs should be the case. It's an emotional response to an imagined state of affair (in the case of a...
I completely agree with your analysis here It's important to distinguish, though, between the correct identification of a thing and the correct predic...
I'll show myself out... As ever, it would be interesting to hear a philosophical take on the psychological models I use, but please don't feel obliged...
1. We don't. Loads of people disagree about the leaf's being green. The colour-blind, synaesthetes, those with damage to various areas of the brain in...
Given that it is secondary information, it becomes an 'is'. You can have a feeling that something 'ought' to be the case. That someone else thinks som...
Yes, but it's still all about whether you personally find the reasons plausible. What seems to you to be the case. At no point are you taking what see...
No examples contrary to this, no. It's perhaps just a little clumsiness of expression. The memetic, non-pedagogic sense you refer to is exactly the se...
No. I think this is what a lot of the disagreement comes down to with your meta-ethical position. Only some people believe that the complete eliminati...
Most people=the majority of the current population of the planet earth ( I suppose we could also make assumptions about past populations, but then we'...
It seems to me that the difference between our positions has to do with the directness of our realism (possibly exactly the same problem we had with r...
The idea is that the loss of the alpha males leads to an opportunity which was not present before and so the stress and aggression is ramped up to try...
Yes, this is the part that I found to be unsupported. Sticks do not bend in water (this can be verified by inconsistency), Santa Clause is not real (w...
But these are all your reasons. You seemed to imply that you undertook some process of incorporating and unifying everyone's reasons. What I'm asking ...
How? What does 'taking into account' a reason actually consist in? Perhaps you could give me an example of someone else's reason (maybe presented in y...
What is the digital representation of pi? What is the position of all the atoms in the atmosphere?.. Knowing something involves encoding that informat...
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