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One Reason to Walk the Walk: To Give Specific Content to Your Assertions
Last week, I discussed some reasons we might not expect or want professional ethicists to "walk the walk" in the sense of living by the ethical norms…
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Does It Matter If Ethicists Walk the Walk?
The Question: What's Wrong with Scheler? There's a story about Max Scheler, the famous early 20th century Catholic German ethicist. Scheler was known…
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Beliefs Don't Need to Be Causes (if Dispositions Aren't)
I favor a "dispositional" approach to belief, according to which to believe something is nothing more or less than to have a certain suite dispositions…
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AI Systems Must Not Confuse Users about Their Sentience or Moral Status
[a 2900-word opinion piece that appeared last week in Patterns] AI systems should not be morally confusing. The ethically correct way to treat them…
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Philosophical Progress by Opening Up New Epistemic Possibilities
Many philosophers have despaired of the existence of philosophical progress, or have thought that progress is sharply limited, because rarely do…
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Philosophical Progress by Opening Up New Epistemic Possibilities
Many philosophers have despaired of the existence of philosophical progress, or have thought that progress is sharply limited, because rarely do…
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Eric Schwitzgebel
The Envy Argument Against the View That Teletransportation Is Death
Oh how mistaken other philosophers are! I was especially struck by this poll result in the just-dropped Bourget and Chalmers study of professional…
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The Splintered Mind
reflections on the philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

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