Twitter Tuesday #47| www.lanceindependent.com
1.0 Introduction| www.lanceindependent.com
Philosophers frequently make claims about how nonphilosophers think, saying things like “it’s commonsense that,” or “most of us think that,” or “we find it intuitive that…” and so on.| www.lanceindependent.com
I critique discouraging metaethical relativism in the classroom in this post.| Lance Independent
A few days ago I wrote a response to an article about the repugnant conclusion.| www.lanceindependent.com
1.0 Maybe we we don’t have intuitions| www.lanceindependent.com
A sort of rhetorical grab bag has accrued over the years: an assortment of tropes, turns of phrase, misrepresentations, allusions, and implications that are recycled and uttered like a ritual whenever the topic of various antirealist positions comes up; typically moral relativism, but on occasion you’ll see references to nihilism or antirealism (though you’ll be unlikely to see direct references to error theory or noncognitivism unless you’re dealing with someone with an academic backgr...| www.lanceindependent.com
Normative entanglement is a common rhetorical strategy moral realists employ when arguing for moral realism.| www.lanceindependent.com
I’m a bit busy at the moment, so I dashed off this long response largely stream of thought.| Lance Independent
A call to stop letting philosophers get away with a bad habit| Lance Independent
1.0 Overlap in the scope of moral and taste standards| Lance Independent
Since hiring and career advancement in philosophy depends a great deal on publication in journals, this incentivizes an emphasis on doing philosophy in the form of essays, and, in particular, the kinds of essays that journals want to publish.| Lance Independent
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1.0 The Halfway Fallacy| www.lanceindependent.com
Twitter Tuesday #42| www.lanceindependent.com
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At least some moral realists have insist most people are moral realists even when others point to empirical data which may suggest otherwise.| www.lanceindependent.com
Excerpt from “A Compendium on Naravost, Volume 3: Frontiers and Outlying Regions”| www.lanceindependent.com
1.0 Introduction| www.lanceindependent.com
1.0 Introduction| www.lanceindependent.com
