by Carl Howard | Nov 8, 2013 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Science and Skepticism, Society
Via lots of places, a story about the recent San Francisco subway shooting has luddites everywhere lamenting how smartphones have changed Who We Are. What prompted this was footage of a man brandishing a gun on the subway and pointing it at people none of whom noticed...
by Carl Howard | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy
In the last 2 posts about morality, I looked at moral statements being: based on empathy not provable from non-moral statements being non-arbitrary because of their evolutionary history Today I’ll look at what this means for actual morality talk. The first point is...
by Carl Howard | Feb 23, 2010 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy
In the previous post, I argued that morality is made up of basic atomic statements (eg. “causing another being to suffer for its own sake is wrong”) that cannot be proved or further broken down into non-moral statements. In a way, I’ve actually argued that metaethics...
