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Addressing the Free Will Problem by Reconciling Different Perspectives
I believe that many concerns over free will have to do with problems of reconciling different perspectives. Indeed, I have come to see the reconciliation of different perspectives as the main underlying problem in most concerns and discussions about free will, even if it is rarely recognized as such.
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Why We Should Go Vegan
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Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
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2020
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Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?
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2018
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The Simple Case for Going Vegan
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2014
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The Speciesism of Leaving Nature Alone and the Theoretical Case for “Wildlife Anti-Natalism”
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Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It
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2015
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You Are Them
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Anti-Natalism and the Future of Suffering: Why Negative Utilitarians Should Not Aim For Extinction
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Reasoned Politics
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2022
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In Defense of Nuance
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I believe the topic is important, but the level of scholarship and research here is unfortunately quite bad. The following is an example: Elizondo is implying that Ronald Reagan took the idea of an alien presence seriously, and he includes a quote fro ...more |
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This book is quite uneven: some genuine wisdom mixed with bad and dogmatic ideas. Although the author writes “[The Buddha’s] teaching is not a dogma”, he nevertheless asserts dogmatic belief in karma and reincarnation, beliefs that are essentially def ...more |
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“... if suffering warrants special moral concern, the truth is that we should never forget about its existence. For even if we had abolished suffering throughout the living world, there would still be a risk that it might reemerge, and this risk would always be worth reducing.”
― Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
― Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
“We think with our culture. That is, we rarely think from first principles, even first principles we ourselves sincerely endorse, but rather from sentiments instilled in us by our culture. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of humanity’s moral attitudes toward non-human animals. Even most utilitarians, who by their own ideals ought to consider the suffering of all beings important, are still in fact exceptionally anthropocentric in their attitudes. The insights of Darwin have not yet trickled fully into our moral consciousness, not even among those whose moral views demand it. Such is the heavy momentum of culture, which is reflected in every facet of modern politics and political thought. The anthropocentrism of most political philosophy is, to put it mildly, a massive failure.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
“It may be difficult for us to recognize that much of our epistemic brokenness is a direct product of our social and coalitional nature itself. After all, we tend to prize our social peers and coalitions, so it might be especially inconvenient to admit that they are often the greatest source of our epistemic brokenness — e.g. due to the seductive drive to signal our loyalties to them and to use beliefs as mediators of bonding, which often comes at a high cost to our epistemic integrity.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
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“The truth is that a more reasoned approach to politics does not come easily, but nor is it impossible. Like literacy, it requires hard work and the right cultural circumstances. And there is reason not to despair completely: the scientific study of our political psychology and biases is still quite young, and its key findings are still to be widely disseminated. We have yet to turn this crucial self-knowledge into common knowledge, and to make it part of our culture. In particular, we have yet to see it change the perhaps most important aspect of our culture, namely our social incentives.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
“While it must be acknowledged that modern political systems work well in a number of ways, especially compared to those systems that wholly suppress civil liberties, it is also true that our political culture and ways of thinking about politics remain starkly underdeveloped and suboptimal in many ways. At the level of our individual thinking, collective norms, and the overarching cultural frameworks with which we tackle politics, there is great potential to do better.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
“Giving equal consideration to all suffering will likely mean prioritizing non-human suffering on the margin, partly because non-human beings are so numerous, partly because their suffering is often extremely intense, and partly because their suffering is uniquely neglected — especially the suffering occurring on factory farms, in the fishing industry, and in nature; three of the biggest screaming elephants in the room of modern political discourse.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
“In light of this unconscious self-deception, one could argue that the attitude we should ideally adopt toward our own motives is roughly the same as the skeptical attitude that we tend to have toward the claims of a politician seeking to get elected.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
“The first steps toward motivated reasoning occur prior to conscious awareness, meaning that we often find ourselves on a moving train of motivated reasoning long before we can frame our first deliberate thought.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
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