The menu of things that should be must logically be restrained to the things that could be. The better we understand why things are as they are, the smaller the set of alternatives that could be, until only a single trajectory is left, in which we can make only our own decisions.
I don't read enough, so I might be unaware of all that good philosophy that is being done? I like Dennett, Metzinger, Drescher and a handful of others because they seem to be not wrong and write well, but it is hard for philosophers to discover something non-obvious these days.
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There are many thinkers that are not branded as philosophers that I value highly though, like Carlo Rovelli, David Chapman, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Dietrich Dörner, Greg Egan, Sarah Perry, Stuart Brand, Danny Hillis, Kevin Simler, Scott Alexander N., Stephen Wolfram, ...
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