Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’m not sure we disagree about the relevance of the fictional/non-fictional distinction. I take it that the distinction ceases to matter in cases like yours, because both fiction and non-fictional accounts give rise to…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. All other issues aside, that is my main objection to accounts of this sort. Any view that treats ‘moral’ rightness and wrongness as independent of ‘prudential’ value will face objections of this so…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I like the tacit assumption of Roderickian infallibility here. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. My resentment against Irfan isn’t just caused by a prior judgment that he’s committed an action of the salient descriptive type; rather, it embodies such a judgment How can it embody such a judgment when I haven’t e…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Another weakness in the Scanlon-type account is that there needs to be a reason why we should care (in a way that goes beyond the merely pragmatic) about justifying our actions to others. And whatever reason we find will …

I agree with the general argument f your post. One quibble, thogh: “Most often, such reasoning or rational response is super-quick and perhaps unconscious: often, one experiences resentment or moral anger in a way that seems automatic or almost …

According to a family of “contractualist” views of morally wrong action pioneered by Thomas Scanlon (in the narrow sense of ‘wrong’ that entails wronging someone and the victim having claims against one not to perform the action — “what we owe to each other”), what makes an action wrong is that it cannot be justified…

In reply to mlyoung57. So my original post bracketed issues regarding framing and the like, and just “drilled down” to the math involved in Freiman’s “proposal.” Honestly, his advice strikes me as so dumb that I’m no…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. The irony is that they wouldn’t be rich even then. LikeLike

In reply to mlyoung57. I’m curious to see the math on your “it works out if you have a roommate for 25 years straight.” I’m assuming that two renters means a two-bedroom apartment. Once you shift up to a 2-bedroom, you increase …