Hi Noah, since I drew the “potential rebuttal” to your attention, could you update your post with the link? Good citation practice :-)
Also, fwiw, I find the clickbaity title rather insulting. It’s not really true that being willing to revise some commonsense moral assumptions in light of powerful arguments automatically makes one “bad at moral philosophy”. It really depends on the strength of the arguments, and how counterintuitive it would be to reject those premises. Common sense is inconsistent, and the challenge of moral philosophy is to work out how best to resolve the conflicts. You can’t do that without actually looking into the details.
Hi Noah, since I drew the “potential rebuttal” to your attention, could you update your post with the link? Good citation practice :-)
Also, fwiw, I find the clickbaity title rather insulting. It’s not really true that being willing to revise some commonsense moral assumptions in light of powerful arguments automatically makes one “bad at moral philosophy”. It really depends on the strength of the arguments, and how counterintuitive it would be to reject those premises. Common sense is inconsistent, and the challenge of moral philosophy is to work out how best to resolve the conflicts. You can’t do that without actually looking into the details.
First of all, you are correct—I will do that now.
Second, yea I hear that—I will revise