Ah, I may be able to help.
At the purely instinctive level (sys1), any time he speaks or writes, he makes all my "do not trust a word" alarms ring.
At the purely intellectual level (sys2), the opposite.
I think this is common, I might be in good company.
cc @BrianSaetre 1/n
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. Living in a working-class district of a Greek city I get reminders of this everyday. Do I do enough about it? No. Given my awareness level, that probably makes me a much greater shitheel than Pinker.
Have you read Unger's Living High and Letting Die? (It's good on this stuff.)
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No -- I'll get a copy. Thanks for the tip.
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This is my online version of perhaps its central thought experiment: http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/sedan/Default.aspx …
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Really interesting and effectively presented. I know it's not the point, but I wonder what correlation there is between what we think we should do in this or that case and what we actually would do.
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Thanks! Not very large, I would suspect!
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I suspect so too -- which makes me much wonder how much value there is our profession's endless analyzing and rationalizing of these intuitions :)
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Well, it allows one to pull the rug out from people who believe their tribe to be largely virtuous and their opponents' tribe to be largely wicked, so that's got to be good! :)
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yes -- promoting self-awareness is perhaps the most valuable thing philosophers can do
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