Yes, not their experiences. What's the difference as far as a proper understanding of morality is concerned? No its not, no one need say anything, we ...
My feelings, my neurological wiring, unconscious following of social norms, predictions of positive outcomes for me, God, the effects of the moral eth...
No they're not. Moral judgements of good and bad apply to behaviours, not to experiences. Hitting children is a behaviour which most think is morally ...
Well, that sounds like a laudable aim, but you've rejected that approach already. You're saying "let's assume moral goodness is equivalent in some way...
Well I presume we'll be abandoning it right now. The fact that some random poster on an Internet forum finds the arguments to be "lame" is, after all,...
Well then quote something from his talks on YouTube. This is a discussion forum. There's nothing to discuss regarding your opinion that Rosenberg shou...
No indeed. I should add some element of arguing against ridiculous strawmen to my 'all the worst argumentative techniques I've recently encountered' f...
Yeah, that's one of the claims. As this thread's failure to cite a single example is amply demonstrating, absolutely no one is denying that there is a...
Yeah. In his joint works with Marcel Kinsbourne, Dennett says The objection, in Nagel's terms is over the "immediately aware of real subjective experi...
... Sounds real to me. How have you concluded he denies something is real yet in the same paragraph go on to summarise what he thinks it is. What's th...
I'm hoping it'll stretch to at least ten pages, the first five of which will be me arguing that the laws of air flow dynamics are wrong before declari...
No, that's exactly what you were doing in your opinion, which is just a biased personal belief. In my opinion, which is self-evident common sense you ...
I think you're forgetting some key definitions Other people's opinions = biases and personal beliefs. My opinions = rational, self-evident common sens...
OK. Can I first paraphrase you to check I've understood what you're saying so far? I have something like... There is such a thing as correct opinion w...
Fair enough, your point was sufficiently made without it. It's of interest to me how some moral pronouncements fall into that category, but others don...
Perfect. I would add though, that, in some cases, I also think there's something wrong with the other person if they want to kick puppies. It's not ju...
Wouldn't then the resulting propositions be labelled 'well-justified'? But they're not, they're labelled 'true'. If we want to know the meaning of a w...
Really, You'd happily label a proposition 'true' based solely on your own observation? That seems uncharacteristically hubristic. I'd at least enterta...
No. You wondered if it existed. You have no experience of wondering, you are not aware of these processes in real time. Do you? Isn't that just beggin...
Do you have anything more substantive to say than just declaring your own incredulity? Like any view on the detail of any of the arguments you oppose,...
But isn't this what the whole issue hinges on, and therefore removing it would re-frame the problem? Take the quest for the Holy Grail - I could defin...
"Admins have the right to ban members. We don't do that lightly, and you will probably be warned about your behaviour if you are under consideration f...
I understand, what concerns me is do we refute, one at a time, the stories told to excuse the existence of an underclass, or do we just dispute the st...
No. I think it's because a lot of powerful people are making a lot of money out of the underclass, a necessary component of any capitalist system. The...
Getting us white men to recognise and declare our privelidge is nothing more than a mumbled apology, and no less empty of real value. The idea of reco...
That's exactly what the whole argument about systemic racism is trying to avoid. The idea that it's white people's attitudes to blacks that's the caus...
I see a lot about links between dopamine and environmental stimuli which may have conferred a competitive advantage. Ignoring for now the question beg...
None of that says anything about the equivalence between moral 'good/bad' and hedonic 'pleasure/pain'. That's the thing you said you could prove (or a...
I read it. I can't find anything in there answering the question about how you show someone is wrong if they do not equate moral 'good' and 'bad' to h...
Yes, but limiting your sample to those people does not then contradict the argument that the vast majority of people are empiricist about the vast maj...
Empiricism is about the source of knowledge, not the source of beliefs. Whatever measure you use to distinguish between the two (I prefer a fuzzy grad...
It's not about whether hedonic experiences are shared, it's about whether the feeling that they relate to 'goodness' and 'badness' is shared, which yo...
I am, as has been pointed out, a 'batshit crazy leftist' and yet my government is lead by the political equivalent of Benny Hill, so no, nobody had to...
So are you suggesting that the media have no influence, that discernable structures of subjugation have no influence on children growing up, that exis...
I'm not seeing the necessary link between 'recignising' general forms and simply knowing how to use generalising terms in a language game. The fact th...
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