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A question for the people who consider themselves “against colorblindness”: is treating everyone the same regardless of their race “colorblindness” in...

Yes of course. Anyone who is not a theist is an atheist, so anyone who was never a theist is still an atheist.

I don’t follow, that clarification wasn’t meant to disqualify anything, so I don’t know what you mean. Option 3 is for if you don’t think there’s at l...

I've added a note for clarification to the end of the OP.

Maybe, but the poll also has options besides those. It seems clear that you do believe there is a god of some sort, but that you arrive at that after ...

Utilitarianism and Kantianism both make no reference to gods and so are entirely practicable by atheists.

How is that not just an obvious vote for one of the theist options? I think I would expect the second, if you’re the usual Kierkegaardian “confronting...

My first answer would be akin to @"StreetlightX"'s: wherever there's an unknown in one's worldview, "God" is a tempting non-answer to insert. It's eas...

You can believe in fate, karma, souls, all manner of supernatural stuff, and still not believe in gods, and therefore be an atheist. Pantheists etc ar...

Maybe not "irrelevant to the human condition", but "irrelevant to philosophy" at least, on my account, goes something like this: in order to answer qu...

Strictly speaking atheism doesn’t imply anything about anything besides God, so you can reject materialism and believe in something supernatural or sp...

May I butt into this argument to ask all the incompatibilists who are apparently here, who accept that the fundamental microscopic scale of reality is...

As a pretty much lifelong atheist, I've recently come to see that in a much more sympathetic light. I always saw people, like my mother, who seem to b...

I don't really follow your point about short vs long term; I think both of those are important to moral considerations, and there's isn't some line be...

Goodness requires free will only inasmuch as free will is equivalent to the capacity for moral judgement to guide behavior, which NB does not require ...

I mostly agree with everything you said, but in this one bit I'm not sure I do, though I might. There is such a thing as weakness of will, where you t...

"Why we should be good?" is a question akin to "Why should we believe the truth?" Baked into the concept of "truth" is "thing to be believed", and bak...

I think the gist of the cyborgs vs AI concern is that rather than humans building AI that will then replace humanity, humans can build AI to enhance h...

Yeah, like many potential future technology applications, I longingly dream of the possibility of the good it could do, but I'm also terrified of the ...

"Possible worlds" in the way that Lewis uses the term are definitionally causally isolated, so nothing from one can meet or in any other way interact ...

I don't understand this sentence, because contingency is literally the negation of necessity. "Contingent" means "not necessary".

All I'm saying is that what you've laid out here does not show why the Incompleteness Theorem must be true. You've successfully shown that any false p...

I have been disambiguating between different senses of the word "good". You are asking what is a "good man" in a way that sounds equivalent to asking ...

But because prior steps hinged on S = true, it must be the case that this P = not S = false, so as you have presented it at least, we only know that t...

For my part, I'm here looking for a little bit of 1 and a little bit of 3, both on my part and in other people. What I loved most about being in philo...

I'm kind of curious, as a newcomer here, if there's somewhere I could read (or if someone could briefly write up) a kind of overview of the social dyn...

I think my position is more clearly stated by expounding the analogy with epistemology in a way that asks us what makes a person epistemically virtuou...

You're missing the important middle step of my three-step position, which is explicitly a synthesis of deontology and utilitarianism. I am anti-conseq...

If we could pit the fideists against the nihilists that would be fun. Anyone left standing would be good people.

"If I am morally responsible, then I have free will" is definitionally true for some forms of compatibilism, like mine, for which freedom of will is j...

Short version of my answer: A good person is a person who does good deeds. Good deeds are those that are good-preserving: that, given good initial cir...

I'll give it a shot, sure. OP doesn't name which specific military actions he's thinking of, but it looks clear to me that he has some in mind; that h...

Seemed quite intelligible to me. :shrug:

Inasmuch as cognitive science overlaps with philosophy of mind, there are a number of topics in that field concerning embodiment. I'm not really aware...

The exact quote suggests that the OP has particular real actions by his particular military in mind. He doesn't say explicitly that it's a war per se,...

That the same set of beliefs can be philosophy to some people and religion to others, at the same time, depending on how and why they believe them? I'...

I think this scenario is a good example of why a synthesis of utilitarianism and deontology is necessary. The synthesis I generally propose is an anal...

My point is that the same beliefs or texts can be simultaneously treated as religious by some people and philosophical by others. It is not the conten...

For those people it certainly is, but in that world there is also a philosophical tradition like our, which includes a Platonism like ours. So in that...

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

It may be a standard view of the sciences that brains are effectively deterministic, being of classical (not quantum) scale, but that can only be extr...

If all people chose not to serve in a military that did unjustified harm specifically, but would serve in a military doing only justifiable violence t...

Yeah, I'm aware of that, and considered also bringing up the Gnostics who seem to take Platonism even more to heart than mainstream Christians, but al...

Throw some azure in there (and especially some green too) and you've got a nicely balanced color scheme. Green grass, azure sky, grapes and oranges to...

With regards to whether Buddhism is a religion or a philosophy, may I offer a counterfactual parallel scenario to illustrate how it could possibly be ...

In my book the defining characterization of religion is appeal to faith, whether that means in your own gut feelings, popular tradition, or some kind ...

Everyone always forgets about the other half of Dunning-Kruger: people who truly know a significant amount about something, enough to know how much th...

No. Bearing has nothing to do with any “essence”. It has to do with how you feel about your physical sex. Orientation isn’t a social construct either:...

Inescapable suffering is bad. Buddhism offers an escape from suffering by not desiring. But not desiring is still bad, relative to the good of satisfy...