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yeah thank you for that. I admit my phrasing is quite confusing, and I think it is a product of me being confused. I'm trying to understand something ...

I'd take the moral naturalist route and argue that we are justified in our scientific postulations insofar as they play an indispensable explanatory r...

Just for clarification, the above list is what a classical utilitarian believes. Other utilitarians have rejected one or more of those claims.

If the dog can't help it, do you think we would have a moral obligation? (according to utilitarianism of course). It would seem yes. Hurricanes "can't...

I'd also be very careful here. Classic utilitarianism is a view about alternative choices, about what makes one action right over another. It does not...

I think most utilitarians abide by "ought implies can." If you cannot not eat meat, then the claim that you ought not to cannot govern over you. You w...

I'm not entirely sure how this lends insight into the question.

can you unpack that more please (if you have time of course).

I don't see how that follows. I'm asking why you think preferences are irrational if they aren't "reasoned." Are all non-reasoned things irrational? I...

What if you were an internalist about justification, and maintained that non-belief states, themselves not justified, can act as justifiers?

probably not.

This is going to be a really random question. But are you Andy Clark? lol I think it unlikely as you said you were a civil engineer. But I'm still ask...

I think this is a plausible analogy. There are many senses to the word reason. An exhaustive taxonomic breakdown may be too much to ask for, but I thi...

this is actually quite beautiful. Is this from somewhere or did you make this up? Either way, I like it.

One that doesn't have to do with reasons. A rather intuitive one is the view that rationality is a property of persons; it supervenes on the mental. I...

No. I'm asking for a reason to be rational. I'm wondering if people think of rationality as normative. It would be circular if one adopted a reason-lo...

Ah thank you for clarifying. Now, let us assume you're right, that which argument we adopt is based on our preferences. Why would that not be rational...

A lot has been said, but it seems the underlying assumptions in your post haven’t been quite extracted yet. I’m not sure how this is the case. Two con...

A lot has been said, but it seems the underlying assumptions in your post haven’t been quite extracted yet. I’m not sure how this is the case. Two con...

I know the question was asked a year ago, but I'll give my two cents. In this post I'm assuming morality supplies us with reasons to act or not act (I...