Emotive Realism and Moral Deviance

On my view a moral judgement consists in a moral emotion or sentiment as well as a belief about the correctness of that sentiment. So to judge that slavery is wrong is to have the moral sentiment of condemnation and the belief that condemnation is the correct emotional reaction to have. I also claim that [...]

NY Consciousness Q-llective

So, it being summer time and all people are out and about. In town for June are Josh Weisberg and Peter Langland-Hassan, who are both veterans of NC/DC that have gone out in the world after graduating. The last time I played with them was the very first Parkside session right after the Eastern apa [...]

Higher-Order Mental Pointing

I recently re-watched the footage of the discussion from Hakwan’s actual talk at NYU. One interesting issue that came up (there were others I may talk about later) was whether a higher-order theory can avoid the mis-match problem. The problem is this. Suppose you have a first-order state that is a seeing of red while [...]

WordPress vs. Blogger?

I have been giving some thought to switching from wordpress to blogger for some time now, both for Philosophy Sucks! and the online consciousness conference….what are the relative merits of each? Is blogger better? What’s the deal?

Commercial Free Philosophy?

I recently cam across Rick Grush’s Commercial Free Philosophy site, a movement which I am deeply sympathetic to (see below)…I have been dying to read the new paper by Michael Gazzaniga but my school is too cheap to subscribe to Science Direct so I’ll never know what the right level of mind-bran analysis is…but anyways, [...]

What is Philosophy that it Sucks so Bad?

Brian Leiter wants to know what philosophers think of philosophy in 75 words or less…here is my 50 word stab (longer stab here) Philosophy is distinguished from other endeavors by its method, which is roughly this: a good argument with the conclusion that p is a reason to believe that p. Philosophers, as we say, feel [...]