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Ethics is the study of what is moral in the same way that physics is the study of what is real. There is no substantive difference between the subject...

Thanks. Provided the extended unemployment benefits actually come through, I can basically treat the time from now through the end of July as an exten...

Red sunsets are caused by Rayleigh scattering, which is also why the daytime sky (not near a sunset) is blue.

If Rayleigh scattering were responsible for the apparent redshift of stars then empty space would be tinted blue like the daytime sky with all of that...

Thanks.

Location in a fourth dimension.

Or would his scheme not instead thwart those questions, and show that they are meaningless, your feelings be damned?

I look forward to more of this thread.

lost my job completely today because financial aid for my employer didn’t materialize in time.

Yes, that says that pleasure is what constitutes good — so on that account looking out for everyone’s interests (aiming to do good for them) means mak...

Not at all. Is not synonymous with moral objectivism. That’s exactly what I’m advocating. Hedonism is just about what constitutes an interest, not who...

Also... In my book I actually subtitle the essays on Mind and Will as being about "...the Subjects of Reality" and "...the Subjects of Morality", inas...

I thought it was in this thread, but I can't find the post to respond to now, so I'll just reply at the end here. Someone said that if life was intrin...

I think I agree with the gist of your overall post, but I'd quibble with this little bit. Morality doesn't have to be "a reality" of any sort; what is...

To my ear “objective” always means “impartial”, and what makes physical stuff objectively real is precisely that it can be impartially determined to e...

I think definitely yes. All actions is driven by comparing what is with what ought to be. All of philosophy can be structured as questions about what ...

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One thing I don’t get about antinatalism is how the same arguments for it aren’t also arguments for suicide, or even arguments for mass euthanasia. If...

I don’t know what you mean exactly here, but all I’m saying is that yes, pessimism (like optimism) is grounded in a mood, and my “ontophobia” (and “on...

"Ontophobia" is just the name I give to the mood underlying philosophical pessimism.

My ontophilia and ontophobia are just names for the very moods you’re talking about.

Yes.

Using slang for a woman’s body part to mean “coward“ very much implies that cowardice is a womanly quality.

I am being paid for every hour worked. The problem is that they want me to do more work per time, by getting that same work done in less time. The amo...

I've always been paid hourly, but it's not like there's a second shift after mine or something who picks up where I leave off, so if I don't keep up w...

Has anyone else heard of or experienced businesses cutting hours supposedly because of slowdown due to coronavirus but then piling tons and tons of wo...

My point wasn’t so much that Trump can be manipulated into taking initiative about anything, and you’re absolutely right that he would throw a fit if ...

Reminds me of a time in 2017 when Trump met with some congress people about gun control and the Democrats present asked if he might possibly consider ...

@"ZhouBoTong" or anyone else else have any input here? I thought at least some of this would be new to somebody given how obscure Whitehead is...

This seems to mix up is an ought some. As a description of the way people actually behave, that sounds accurate to me. As a prescription for the corre...

It's not a choice between rebelling against the system or accepting it how it is. I'm not saying everything is fine and to accept it how it is, and I'...

I disagree. I do think that to make productive headway in conversation, some topics need to be closed off, but those topics that need to be closed off...

FWIW I do discuss these Kantian "categories" (or something much like them at least) in the next essay in this series On Ontology, Being, and the Objec...

What I’m saying is that that can be and sometimes is the case — it’s a state of mind, not a state of the world. I’ve had that state of mind before. I’...

I don't support that, at least not in public spaces. I support individuals' rights to not engage with such people, and private venues' rights to exclu...

I think this gets at a key point: “heaven” is as much (if not more so) a matter of our internal states as external ones. If you could have absolutely ...

I keep scrolling past this thread and misreading it as "Evidence of Coronavirus Surviving the Body".

FWIW the founder of pragmatism, Peirce, considered others nominally following after him to have deviated drastically from his project, so much so as t...

And yet pragmatism is still a school of philosophy, aiming to do philosophy better than it had been done, not to stop doing it.

According to now-banned user alcontali, it was probably oppressed Muslim supergenius bioengineers living in China giving the Chinese people what they ...

It's actually not measles, so professionals call it by its proper name, rubella. You (hopefully) never got a MMGM (mumps, measles, German measles) vac...

Yes, and for me, "concrete" is an indexical, because it's short for "part of this mathematical structure". So, from the point of view of beings that a...

Yeah, I think that what we're doing here is unambiguously metaphilosophy (I mean, it's in the title! ;)), which on my account at least is the philosop...

Being the originator of one of the two positions in question, I've defined it by analogy to Lewis's, so saying they're not really analogous is saying ...

There are two different senses of "consciousness" we need to distinguish. One is a completely functional ("mechanical" if you like) sense, called "acc...

Yes, but the tricky bit here is, I think that the nature of that conceptual distinction is not what it is usually taken to be, and that is the disting...

Thanks for the reference to Paul Portner, I'll have to look him up when I can. Can you elaborate more on the alternatives to "partaking" supported by ...

I think you got that quote slightly wrong. The usual sentiment that I see has a conjunction, not a dysjunction.

Are you disputing that natural philosophy was historically considered a part of philosophy? If so, what can we possibly do here to resolve the disagre...