Andrew4Handel

Well done!!

But I think this a case of taking advice. I agree that there are authorities if you need to achieve a certain goal. But I don't see that they should b...

I think an orchestra is based on an agreement. You can leave the orchestra if repeatedly frustrated by the conductor. I think the necessity of obedien...

What do you mean by the legislating authority? I don't think legislation is irrational but I think you should only adhere to it based on rationality. ...

Before you set up an authority you need to know if it is justified. The Police is a controversial area but I think The Fire service is more straightfo...

I think that rationality leads to an is but not to an ought. Obedience is an ought. Rationality may be very persuasive about a course of action but I ...

You have to try and seek out reasonable people wherever possible.

I have not been a huge fan of any of them but I have listened to lots. Philosophy bites is conveniently short and covers a wide range of topics. Parti...

I think there is a difference between something being identical and something being the same thing. An apple is considered to be made up of atoms but ...

I think how people feel is a fact, but it does not mean they are right in what they feel. It can be a fact that I believe the earth is flat. If someon...

If it is not objectively wrong to kick the puppy I don't see why it wold be subjectively wrong either. I would rather base a moral system around objec...

This just means correlated with the brain because they are clearly not identical.

I don't now what you mean then, because I have offered a framework for the explanation which is that if mental states are physical brain states then b...

But indeterminism does not imply free will. However there is a certain level of determinism and regularity in a system. You can easily prove someones ...

I don't know what mental things are made of but I have compared them with things that are spatial temporal and have energy. You could also say things ...

Free will is a problem for any moral theory and a physicalist theory is far less likely to allow for freewill.

The idea that brain states are determined is a common belief. If the mind is the brain then brain events are determined by other physical events. This...

It is not at all incoherent because it is the reality of our mental life. The only way you can make the mental seem physical is based on a crude mind ...

I don't know what identity you are positing? I do not see how something like nerve fibres firing is identical to brain states. if that is what it mean...

How does the mind fit into the natural realm since we do not have an explanation for it and mental phenomena?

What is your argument against a non natural realm?

Teleology is very useful if you want to learn how to drive a car.

Some people believe in a non natural realm so won't have ruled this out. I think goodness as a preference is not entirely coherent. It is trivially tr...

I think if goodness is a property it must exist in the supernatural realm.

You said in your first post. This In Response to my claim that there was a difference between something being wrong and feeling wrong. That is why I h...

I think a moral system is most undermined based on the degree to which it is unenforceable and the level to which it resolves moral disputes. That is ...

I think morality should probably be classed under psychology. And in psychology I favour the qualitative method of exploring individual cases in rich ...

I am currently a moral nihilist so I don't have an ethical position per se. I was arguing against the disconnect between emotions and events. I think ...

I said my experience counts against the theory I didn't say it defeated it. In science my type of evidence would not defeat the methodology but it wou...

I think work is problematic for many reasons. The reason you have to work is not through choice (even if that work is just cleaning your teeth or walk...

Your position apparently implies a disconnect between moralizing and the activities that provoke moralizing. If a situation is clearly harmful then th...

My own experience of my failure of moral intuition counts against a theory of valid moral intuition/feeling. It is not the only source of evidence. I ...

If someone says "The Eiffel tower is a tall structure" What they are referring to is something in the external world. The harm of murder and the suffe...

The argument people have been making is that our moral ideas are just feelings. and that things we thought were objective morals were actually subject...

I don't think people would believe something was wrong if they perceived no harm from the action, unless they were under duress. For example, no one I...

I am not sure what position I'm supposed to be rejecting. My initial argument is that feelings is not a sufficient basis for morality. The reason is t...

I think when someone says "Murder is wrong" they mean it is wrong to inflict serious harm on someone and rob them of life. I do not think they are say...

I think you can deduce what is good for your physical body but not necessarily what is a good action or purpose. I think physical health can be fairly...

That is highly problematic because people feel all manner of things at different stages in their life and different moods. My ethical intuitions lead ...

I am not attempting to do that I am just pointing out the failures of morality. Another problem for morality is humans persistent bad behaviour. Human...

I am not sure what you position is. However It does not follow that if you reject objective morality you have endorse a "feelings" approach.. People h...

I think there is a serious problem for morality especially secular morality when people suffer a serious crime like being murdered and there is no jus...

So how does reason relate to feelings?

My experiences led me to moral nihilism because of the unreliability of guilt feelings and other emotions and the lack of a moral authority. And this ...

I think feeling that rape is wrong is adequate to make rape representations problematic. I think it is possible with porn to be aroused by things we w...

Isn't the challenge to try and find a valid morality and not just to be fed the rules deterministically? I am agnostic about this. I think that I woul...

I don't want to be too crude but what about rape representation in pornography? Or maybe pornography in general? People can probably have opposing dri...

Why is this so? It is probably best to treat each case individually. I think mental states do present a problem in terms objectifying them and evaluat...

But someone can base their morality on harm assessment. So they can refer to objective suffering and harm in making a moral claim and their objection ...

But you said values are brain states. So the actions are the same but the brain states are different. I think it is problematic if some actions causes...