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Like Gandalf the White, I return (albeit briefly), bringing tidings of my final philosophy effort, a new way of expressing & framing modal logic that clobbers a number of paradoxes. If you liked my posts here, you will surely enjoy their culmination (type URL shown). I miss you!
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Philosophy of religion folks, this is a good guy to follow. Very thoughtful, moderate, and non-dogmatic theist.
Be well, Stan.
You'll find me here!:
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I'm afraid this isn't working anymore. Find me where skies are bluer and subs are stackier.
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Metaethics in 2 minutes.
- Ethics is pluralistic (contra clean "factions/-isms").
- It's stance-dependent at the base.
- Contextual stance-independence emerges via stratification.
- The reification of moral language has rhetorical power; *expected* to evolve & capture intuition.
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"Universalization" in the Categorical Imperative is a nakedly stance-laden maneuver, pretending to be impersonal, but wholly subject to tricks of rhetoric.
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"Why do I have to?" "Because you're supposed to!"
Reattaching the expectant & responding party (if indeed there is one) repairs metaethics.
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Reification is when an important thing to which a proposition is indexed fades away from neglect or omission, with weird rhetorical consequences -- some of them powerful enough to motivate that fading.
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Even if determinism is true, we have self-determination.
But "self-determination" needs to be defined according to what actually happens inside when we ponder & commit.
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Example of virtue ethics becoming a debate over stance-dependent lexical litmus criteria:
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If you think necessity and contingency are strict opposites, you're undernotating your modality.
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"Loud" philosophy in a nutshell
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Find my latest StanStack on Google to solve this vexing riddle and learn moral realism's dark secrets.
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Here's How to Make Sense of Things (in the anti-grifter way)
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New article at the StanStack!
Good luck finding it. You up for the challenge?
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While back, "ought" just meant "owed" (same with "should"); what's "due" certain "debtee(s)," e.g., values, needs, goals, persons, etc.
This obscured indexing is how "you ought to eat the chocolate" and "you ought not eat the chocolate" can both be true.
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If you don't watch this clip from my recent chat w/ philosopher Lance Bush of Lance Independent, then you won't know what a multidimensionally polysemous trumpet-trombone is.
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In philosophy (ontology, metaethics, epistemology, you name it) you see some (most?) folks do semantic and/or conceptual analysis in weirdly bivalent & monistic ways. Here's what that really is:
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I am still seeing people use passive "is fitting," "is permitted/permissible," is obligated/obligatory," "supposed to," "is allowed/allowable," " is compulsory," "is required," etc. in serious defenses of moral stance-independence so I gotta, once again, tap the sign
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Until last night I had never seen any of the truly classic heavy metal bands I so love.
What a way to break that spell. Unbelievable show.
How Halford is 73 and still doing this with his voice is beyond me.
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When you see words ending with "-able" in a syllogism, let Picard declare "red alert" in your head, or the Metal Gear "!" sound, or whatever suits your fancy.
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