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The Tribunal of Experience: Philosophy and the Movies

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Thursday, June 17, 2004. Philosophy and the Movies. There's recently been quite a bit of discussion in the philosophy-related blogosphere about philosophy and the movies. (See here. All of this has been prompted by a list. Of recent English-language movies with philosophical themes that has been compiled by Jason Brennan. With one notable exception. The focus is on the single individual and the ways in which an individual c...

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The Tribunal of Experience: Mackie Question

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Saturday, June 19, 2004. I have a question about Mackie's analysis of ordinary moral language and thought in the first chapter of his Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. MM) Necessarily, if you apprehend or detect that it is objectively wrong to x, then you are motivated not to x. If we suppose that apprehending or detecting that something is objectively wrong involves judging that it is objectively wrong, then (MM) appears ...

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The Tribunal of Experience: Lee on the Demandingness of Consequentialism, Part I

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Sunday, June 20, 2004. Lee on the Demandingness of Consequentialism, Part I. I'd like to say something about the objection to consequentialism that Christian Lee discusses in this post. I'm going to break up my discussion into two post. The first sets out the problem as I see it; the second briefly discusses some possible consequentialist responses. Here's Lee's account of the objection:. I find this objection wanting. ...

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The Tribunal of Experience: A Possible Strand in Mackie's Argument from Queerness

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Wednesday, June 23, 2004. A Possible Strand in Mackie's Argument from Queerness. All this recent discussion of Mackie has brought me back to the main question I have about his work: What, exactly, is going on in the argument from queerness? An Argument against Objective Moral Values. So that's the strategy. What are the details here? But, whichever of these two conclusions we draw, it seems to result in a pretty significant...

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Multiple Realizations: 2006-01-08: don't get caught reading this....

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Multiple Realizations : Philosophical Musings, etc. Hedonistic Utilitarianism and Ignorance: or the case of the molesting Hypnotist. In coversation I once posed the following case to some students of mine. I wasn't sure if it had any real philosophical significance, but I have increasingly come to think that there might be. The issues seem to be: 1) must I know that I have been harmed in order to actually be harmed? 2)Can there be moral value in my ignorance of harm?

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Mark On the Wall: November 2006

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Mark On the Wall. People like me should come with a label. May cause permanent damage. I jest about this- say it should come in the form of a business card, but it has been said that to every joke there is some truth. I wonder at my willingness, the ease of landing face first into self-ridicule and disapproval. I hate that it happens. I hate even more that you recognize this diffidence, that you catch sight of it without even seeing my face or hearing my voice. Letting go, that is my biggest weakness, bu...

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The Tribunal of Experience: (Nearly) Shameless Self-Promotion

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Sunday, June 20, 2004. I haven't yet mentioned this here, and so I'll do so now: I've written some reviews and compiled some lists for Amazon. Honestly, most of this stuff isn't very good. But I thought it was worth mentioning, and I think I'll put a link to my stuff on my sidebar. If you're interested in checking out what I've done, you can look here. Why am I posting about this? And I'm willing to listen to suggestions fo...

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The Tribunal of Experience: Slow Posting

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Tuesday, June 29, 2004. Posting, I'm afraid, is probably going to be pretty slow here over the next couple of weeks. I can't keep up the herculean (for me) pace that I set for myself over those first four or five weeks. So I hereby apologize to (both of) my dedicated readers for not churning out third-rate philosophy at a pace of a couple thousand words a day over the next couple of weeks. Why the slackening of my pace?

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The Tribunal of Experience: Lee on the Demandingness of Consequentialism, Part II

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The Tribunal of Experience. Defiantly having one thought too many since May 2004. Tuesday, June 22, 2004. Lee on the Demandingness of Consequentialism, Part II. And away we go, with some possible consequentialist responses to this supposed problem. I'll talk about responses of two types. I'll begin with responses that go after this sort of reflective equilibrium argument, and then I'll briefly discuss a couple more arguments. Against the Reflective Equilibrium Argument. Can we avoid this? Previous Posts:...