You mention you’re not sure how much debate there is around consciousness these days. Surprisingly I’d say the same is increasingly true of normative ethics.
There’s still a lot of disagreement about value systems, but most people seem to have stopped having that particular argument, at least as regards total vs negative utilitarianism (which I’d say was the biggest such debate going on a few years ago).
You mention you’re not sure how much debate there is around consciousness these days. Surprisingly I’d say the same is increasingly true of normative ethics.
There’s still a lot of disagreement about value systems, but most people seem to have stopped having that particular argument, at least as regards total vs negative utilitarianism (which I’d say was the biggest such debate going on a few years ago).