Michael

So what factors determine whether or not a belief is immoral? So how have you determined that the belief "racism is acceptable" is immoral and not jus...

OK, so you're drawing a distinction between a person being immoral and a belief being immoral such that a person can have an immoral belief but not be...

So you are saying that it is immoral to have a false moral belief? It's just that the character of the person determines the severity of the immoralit...

Then can you give me an example of an immoral false moral belief and a not-immoral false moral belief (assuming an adult with full mental capacities)?

So it's immoral for an adult with full mental capacity to have a false moral belief?

So what's the difference between being morally responsible for having a false moral belief and not being morally responsible? What are the determining...

What's the difference between being culpable for having a false moral belief and not being culpable?

So, are you suggesting that it's immoral to have a false moral belief?

As-is the argument isn't valid. 4. is a non-sequitur. However, that's more to do with your paraphrasing than with the actual argument, which instead o...

Is it better than Ben & Jerry's?

I'm pretty sure that would require an Amendment.

Unless a) morality requires a choice and b) we don't choose what to believe. But that's philosophy, and we're in feedback, so let's not get sidetracke...

How can something like "I am morally obligated to point out that whites/men/heterosexuals are superior to blacks/women/homosexuals" ever not be an ins...

So eternalism?

By "deterministic" are you just referring to causal determinism (every event has a cause) or to the stronger nomological determinism (every event has ...

Well, addiction is usually defined as "a medical condition characterised by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences ",...

Bait and switch!

I'm confused by this. Let's take the observable universe as an example. Surely it's flat (parallel lines never cross, the corners of cubes will always...

So your notion of free will depends on a notion of the self that we have no understanding of? In which case we have no understanding of what it means ...

Reductive materialism doesn't make any assumptions about what the nature of the physical is. What it argues is that mental phenomena can be reduced to...

If reductive materialism is the case then our wills are brain states, so it's not clear to me what you mean here.

I interpreted "if ... we are exhaustively physical beings" as "if ... reductive materialism obtains". How else was I to interpret it? We understand su...

So we have free will if reductive materialism obtains, if the relevant brain states are the exclusive causal influence of our behaviour, and if the ca...

Are you saying that it requires probabilistic causation or that it requires spontaneity (i.e. that our actions are uncaused)? Which seems to amount to...

How is this any different to one's behaviour being random? And given the role of probability in quantum effects (and assuming that this isn't just a m...

He actually explains this in the preface to Philosophical Investigations:

And as I explained, there may be more than one coherent definition of free will; some of which obtain and some of which don't; some of which can be su...

Yes, as well as providing the various definitions in the first place, which you seem unwilling to do.

I'm not making it difficult. I'm pointing out that it is difficult. You can pretend all you like that there's a simple, unambiguous account of what it...

That depends on how you define free will. There may be evidence if it's defined one way but not if defined another way.

Because of the latter, simply stating the former doesn't help much. It could be that one concept of free will obtains and another doesn't, or that one...

I've read about it, but like I said, the explanations don't amount to much of an explanation at all (or, upon closer examination, don't actually conve...

Not in any meaningful sense. Like you they'll "explain" it as "we have free will if we're responsible for our actions" but then don't explain what it ...

Pick the one that you agree with. I have neither the time nor the space to look at and address all of them.

I haven't been given a definition. So give me a definition. Explain to me the difference between being responsible and not being responsible for my ac...

Just look at our discussion. I ask you to explain it and you avoid it. That's what others do. So rather than wonder why it hasn't been explained to me...

Either they've avoided explaining it, like you, or they've provided an explanation which, upon closer examination, leads to a conclusion that's contra...

I don't know what it means, which is why I'm asking. I've certainly come across the concept, but only in the sense that people talk about it – but lik...

I'm saying that the concept hasn't been explained to me. You mention this thing called "free will" and I'm asking you to tell me what it is. What's th...

And what's the difference between acting like one is responsible and acting like one is not responsible? And what's the difference between actually be...

Asking me questions doesn't answer my questions.

And what does it mean to be responsible for your actions? What is the self? Are responsibility and determinism even incompatible? These sorts of quest...

I selected "Other" as I don't think it's often clear what it even means to have free will.

What about a sphere?

Well, the observable universe is a sphere.

Nah, they have a previous reading of 45.0 when it should be 3,553. Strange. Edit: Just made the connection. 45 is my house number. Guessing they typed...

Gas bill came in. Apparently my usage for the past 2 months was 39,000 kWh. That's £930. Something fishy is going on.

Whereas Theseus' ship is identical to its particular form, according to one way of viewing the paradox. Same ship, different material.

Just to clarify; when you're taking about form are you just talking about shape?

He did that in the opening post: So the analog/digital distinction is a continuous/discrete distinction.