Moral realism is strangest thing my colleagues widely believe. It's like everyone around me is sensible, sober minded, and believes that fairies steal milk on the window sill and consider it bizarre when one thinks we really ought look for some other explanation for missing milk.
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Replying to @lastpositivist
does blackburn/gibbard quasi-realism count as realism in this context?
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Replying to @peligrietzer
It’s, like, in the middle between plausible and magic, it’s the magnetism of meta ethical positions.
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Replying to @lastpositivist
i'm kinda of confused about your own take. like, when you say 'i know what my commitments are' -- you've gotta be, like, the only person i ever met who knows what their commitments are
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Replying to @lastpositivist
e.g. you have a definite take on, like, repugnant conclusion stuff, that obviates any drive towards reflection?
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Replying to @peligrietzer @lastpositivist
on how to quantify well-being? on desire-satisfactions vs hedonics? on how to count the well-being of insects?
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Replying to @peligrietzer @lastpositivist
is there anyone on record that articulates a metaethical positions close to your take? i'm pretty startled and confused by this, it's so much more hardcore than anti moral anti-realism i know, and i identify as a moral anti-realist
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Replying to @peligrietzer
Mackie is close. But I've never found a philosopher or poet who I think well expresses the truly normatively blank universe. (`Normative' to note that I think this goes for much more than morality. E.g. I also find it bizarre when people think there's real epistemic normativity.)
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Replying to @lastpositivist
Weirdly for me the issue isn't classic normative blankness but whether implicit commitments are a thing. Like, the kind of moral nihilism I'm bothered about is more Kripkenstein re: content of commitments than Mackie
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Oh yeah I also found the rule following paradox pretty persuasive lol
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