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#error-theory
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Reading group: Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), chapter one
The question I keep asking my effective altruism friends is what “ought” means in “you ought to give”. Someone told me to read Mackie before I asked again. So here is a reading group, partly so I do not do it alone.…
Started by Ethan Mercer5 replies -
Half my class says they are nihilists. What exactly are they claiming?
I teach Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person to sixteen-year-olds in Davao. This term, about half the class announced they were nihilists. When I asked what that meant, I got: "nothing matters", "there's no right or wrong", "we can't really…
Started by Rowena Abellana4 replies -
Mackie’s argument from queerness proves too much: by its standards arithmetic is queer too
Mackie's argument from queerness says that if there were objective moral facts, they would be, in his words, of “a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe”, and we would need an equally strange faculty to know them.…
Started by Ana Clara Ferreira5 replies