Archive for October, 2014
Morality in Reservoir Dogs
Posted by ausomeawestin in Morality, Movies & Television Shows on October 18, 2014
I revisited one of my favorite films recently, the fiendishly repugnant, Reservoir Dogs, after a chance hearing of “Little Green Bag” in a commercial, the musical number that, over the opening credits, takes the audience from the pre-burglary breakfast to the post-burglary bloodbath. In reading some reviews and papers on the film, I noticed that […]
Ethics, irrealism, Mark Timmons, moral irrealism, Morality, movies, philosophy, Quentin Tarantino, reservoir dogs
The Is/Ought Gap pt. II: On Its Implications for Reductionism and Intuitionism
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics on October 13, 2014
I’ve very much enjoyed the excellent discussions that have been occurring in the comments section of my recent post on the Is/ought gap. All of the commentators have been provocative and informative, but Larry posted some fantastically critical remarks of two positions I was advancing in that post, (I) that the is/ought thesis has no […]
ethical intuitionism, Ethics, irreducibility, is/ought problem, is/ought thesis, metaethics, moral epistemology, moral knowledge, moral realism, moral reductionism, Morality, philosophy, the is/ought gap
Cogito Ergo Su(m/n)day Review in the NY Times: Graziano’s Eliminativism
Posted by ausomeawestin in Misc. Philosophy on October 12, 2014
The New York Times Sunday review features a short article by Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton, arguing for eliminativism. The gist of the piece is that subjective experiences are flawed approximations of data given by external stimuli structured by the mechanistic physical system that is the brain, such that it can be said that […]
Artificial Intelligence, cogito ergo sum, consciousness, eliminativism, materialism, Michael Graziano, philosophy, philosophy of mind, realism, the external world, The New York Times
The Is/Ought Gap: It’s real but doesn’t pose a problem for “scientific moralists”
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics on October 11, 2014
In the past two weeks I’ve stumbled upon blog entries that argued for a “scientific morality”, and in doing so challenged the “is/ought thesis”, which seems to be a rite of passage to be a naturalist these days. Unfortunately, the writers misunderstand the “is/ought” thesis, and so their arguments against it fail (but both entries […]
a priori, Cornell realism, David Brink, ethical intuitionism, Ethics, is/ought problem, is/ought thesis, Michael Huemer, moral epistemology, moral explanations, moral realism, moral reductionism, Morality, Nicholas Sturgeon, philosophy, philosophy of science, reductionism, science, the is/ought gap, vegetarian, vegetarianism
Review of Mark Timmons’ Morality Without Foundations pt III (of III): on Timmons’ Contextualist Epistemology
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics on October 4, 2014
Timmons then turns to matters of moral epistemology, arguing for a contextualist epistemology that borrows from foundationalist and coherentist views to develop an account of how regular persons can have justified moral beliefs – a criterion that he says the other epistemological views don’t take seriously enough. Timmons notes, before getting things going, that he […]
contextualism, epistemology, Ethics, Mark Timmons, metaethics, moral epistemology, Morality, Morality Without Foundations, philosophy, W.D. Ross
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