Yes / I mostly tried to describe “pure” version of the theory, not moderated by applications of other types of reasoning.
I don’t think the way I’m using ‘deontology ’ and ‘virtue ethics’ reduce to ‘conventional morality’ either.
For example, I currently have something like a deontic commitment to not do/say things which would predictably damage epistemics—either of me or of others. (Even if the epistemic damage would have an upside like someone taking some good actions)
I think this is ultimately more of an ‘attempt at approximating true consequentialism’ rather then ‘conventional morality’ which does not care about it.
The theory & current state of cognitive science & applied rationality certainly don’t fully resolve the problem, but I’m optimistic they provide at least some decent approximate guesses
Yes / I mostly tried to describe “pure” version of the theory, not moderated by applications of other types of reasoning.
I don’t think the way I’m using ‘deontology ’ and ‘virtue ethics’ reduce to ‘conventional morality’ either.
For example, I currently have something like a deontic commitment to not do/say things which would predictably damage epistemics—either of me or of others. (Even if the epistemic damage would have an upside like someone taking some good actions)
I think this is ultimately more of an ‘attempt at approximating true consequentialism’ rather then ‘conventional morality’ which does not care about it.
The theory & current state of cognitive science & applied rationality certainly don’t fully resolve the problem, but I’m optimistic they provide at least some decent approximate guesses