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I mean technically it's self-published online right now. I don't have any particular plans to get like a professional publisher to put it in dead tree...

@"StreetlightX" Might I ask that this debate about moral nihilism/relativism/whatever be split into its own thread? Would rather it not swamp this one...

Sounds about right.

This sounds again like we're all talking at cross-purposes, then. The pro-colorblind side seems to be saying "race should not be factored into our pre...

I literally philosophized my way out of life-crippling depression a decade ago. The depression didn't go away, but I became extremely functional despi...

Quoting myself to add: it occurs to me that supernatural things are not just a useful analogy for my take on philosophical zombies, they're actually o...

Can you then please answer the question I asked in the message you replied to, both before and after the part you quoted: "What more besides the thing...

I don't really talk in terms of qualia, but if I had to define them I'd say they're just facets or aspects of subjective, first-person, phenomenal exp...

I'm not denying any of that. What more besides the things I already described (giving land etc back directly when the crimes are tractable, helping pe...

:clap: :up: The very start of my philosophy is to reject basically religion (fideism and transcendentalism), and then immediately also reject nihilism...

Future me doesn't exist yet but I care about him. I also care about other people generally. It just follows from the two that I would care about futur...

You thinking we are implying those unexamined assumptions that we explicitly deny implying is exactly what I mean about people thinking things other p...

That is a good point, thank you. I'm seeing here an analogue to the argument between gender abolitionists and trans people, which is yet another argum...

FWIW I completely understand what you're saying (and it seems to me that you've understood everything I've said here so far) and I'm baffled about how...

You just immediately answered your question. We cannot help but believe something or another. And a critical rationalist epistemology says sure, go ah...

As the OP I'm curious to hear your view on my little summary of the merits of both sides of this argument: Racism is the historical cause of many ongo...

Quoting myself to add an addendum: another way of describing this sense of "faith" as I mean it is believing something in a way that holds it as beyon...

I have two objections still to this revision. One is that by restricting to topic to being about "gods and related topics", it possibly excludes thing...

How I would address that problem without having to discriminate based on race: Whenever a tractable case of someone taking someone’s property is at ha...

I submit that we all act in consideration of future people all the time: our future selves. I keep going to work and doing other difficult adult thing...

Can you elaborate? I’m not very familiar with Australian racial politics. I would guess that is has something to do with the rights of indigenous peop...

None of those sound like problems where discriminating on the basis of race would have made things better. They're just problems that are not solved j...

More of just an example or two, because I'm just trying to imagine a scenario where treating people equally is bad, and what would be the better alter...

That is very much like the point I'm trying to make to distance myself from what Jackson thinks he's proved. The first-person experience of phenomenal...

I expected an answer like this, but it's still not clear to me what you actually want people to do to do that. Like, I meet two new friends, one of th...

I actually don't remember anything in Leibniz specifically about heaven, and some quick Googling to try to jog my memory mostly finds people asking si...

Yeah if you can split that out of this thread that’d be great thanks.

Can you please answer the second part then? What specifically does who need to do when to avoid doing the bad thing you’re against?

You still act like I’m trying to essentialize when I’m not at all. The point about particular experiences all being slightly different isn’t at all in...

Since other people are posting more details than just a poll answer I guess I should post something about myself too. I’ve got a BA summa cum laude in...

Since you seem to be the prime opponent of “colorblindness” on this thread, maybe you can answer the question I’ve asked of that side several times: i...

“Normative” means pertaining to what ought or ought not be; prescriptive, evaluative, loosely speaking moral.

:up: Treat everyone the same regardless of race. Including helping people in need regardless of race. If one race is more in need, you end up automati...

The normatively relevant part is important. So unless you think vulnerability to sunburn makes white people worse as people, then no.

A common academic definition of racism (eg George Fredrickson) is race essentialism which is to say that there are such things as races with inherent ...

@"fdrake" or another mod can you please confirm or deny this supposed rule about links? I’ve been linking a bunch to my own essays in other threads, i...

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It sounds like you still think I am essentializing the experience of something apart from the thing itself, when the thing itself is itself an experie...

That Wittgenstein quote seems to agree completely with what I’m trying to say, so if you agree with it may we agree more than we thought. In saying th...

Logic is only the form of reason, evidence is its substance. Reason means offering exactly that, reasons, to (dis)favor one opinion vs another.

“Cis” is not an acronym, it’s just the Latin antonym of “trans”.

The not-faith is reason.

Arguing about panpsychism is really beyond the scope of this thread. The more salient point is that having my philosophical opinions didn’t send me sp...

My objection is then that you have defined faith as “probable or reasonable belief about religious topics”, which is most problematic for excluding al...

That definition of faith would include basically all secular belief as well though, so doesn’t seem useful for distinguishing faith from other modes o...

Yes absolutely, if we create a “technological god” we will probably (and should) become one with it rather than it being something separate from us.

Life is a functional difference. A living thing stops being alive when it stops doing the things that constitute living. Also, life isn’t the differen...

There are still causes you can care about and support without having to decide the big controversial issues, and some of them can be the most importan...

Faith is taking “because X said/thinks so”, i.e. the absence of any reason, to be a reason, for any X, including “everyone” or yourself. Religion is a...