That's certainly not true. Robust moral realists do make positive arguments in favor of realism. Cuneo's The Normative Web and Scanlon's Being Realist...
You're stretching the ideas of "communication" and "information" too broadly to justify this. We could be dealing with conscious beings that have no b...
Moral agreement isn't so much an argument for moral realism as it is a counterargument to the argument from moral disagreement. You might claim that p...
Happy birthday! I think this is a plausible enough account. I don't find it strikingly more plausible than moral opinions just being beliefs, but it w...
I totally agree. Humans have innate moral sensibilities. We often perceive something, and without more than a thought about it, we will judge it as ri...
I said "torturing someone for no reason other than personal pleasure." Consider, "murder is wrong." Since "murder" means "unjustified killing," it see...
You raise a good point. There are facts about physical reality that are extremely basic, agreed upon by practically everyone. There are also physical ...
Perhaps I should have said moral disagreement is not at more of an impasse than disagreement about things we all agree are matters of fact. On the ind...
I'm not quite that optimistic! We haven't even resolved the dispute about vaccines, or the dispute about flat earth. "The range of moral criticism, as...
Clearly your experience differs from mine here. My experience with people discussing morality usually consists in them putting forward claims, like "a...
Hey, don't be pessimistic about it. Are you going to publish? The only negative thing I would say about the sort of "theory-of-everything" approach yo...
Usually when the semantic content of a type of discourse is a certain way, we use that discourse in ways that match the semantic content. An example o...
Definitely never said anything about "objective" entities. I think that, even from a relativist standpoint, assigning the property "wrong" to "slavery...
Which part is simply not true? When I said this, referring to our use of moral language: "We debate, disagree, and use reason to draw conclusions from...
Excited to get into epistemology and ontology threads when they come up. Are you a mod here or just a very involved user? At face value, this seems pa...
Lockdown, eh? If you're in America right now, my heart goes out to you. I was making the mistake of necessarily associating impressions with prescript...
As you are evidently a meticulous thinker, I will have to try my best to act as one in turn. The level of detail in your posts will delay my responses...
I don't think you can accurately construe a soul-based theory as reductionism about the self. In what I've read, these types of theories don't say tha...
First, I want to commend you for the substantial time and effort you have clearly put into philosophizing. You have managed to put something together ...
Interesting take. I look forward to reading your expansion on it. It seems to capture some of our evaluative language well, while to describe other fo...
I see. I think that what is different between our ontologies must hinge on this notion of what it means for a proposition to be correct. What is your ...
Not Pfhorrest, but I'll give my 2 cents. This isn't a problem unique to moral reasoning. Different people could use the utterances, "The woman who gav...
What differentiates the narrow sense and the broad sense as you speak of them, other than the fact that the narrow sense is physical and the broad sen...
I think you may be overvaluing the argument from queerness. Do you have decisive reason to believe that only physical, natural facts exist? Take the t...
I don't think there is a significant difference, as I am a reductionist about personal identity. Many people are not, and would believe that there is ...
To be fair, if we are considering a scenario with teletransportation, we aren't having a discussion that's constrained by the limits of technology. We...
If just your body's matter changing gradually leads to death, you die in this sense multiple times throughout your life, inevitably. If you are not co...
I feel like that's very broad. It could be said that my kidneys are required to function "most" effectively, yet, we usually don't think of people as ...
You mention it being imperative that the body is held in one piece. Do you believe this to the most extreme extent? Say, that I cannot lose an arm wit...
When you say your mind, do you mean your brain, or something else? Do you think that the self is something separate from the physical, yet dependent o...
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