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What Does It Mean to Call God “Good”?

J.P. Andrew explains the Euthyphro Dilemma for Divine Command Theory:

1. Either: (a) God has reasons for what he commands, or (b) he does not.

2. If (a), then God’s reasons (not God’s commands, per DCT) determine what is morally r...

3 days ago
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Hard Questions Aren’t Hopeless

I’ve long been struck by a structural commonality between radical skepticism and cluelessness worries. Since the EA Forum has been discussing cluelessness this week, I figured I’d take another stab at explaining why I’m not too troubled by...

6 days ago
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Paywalls are OK

Walter Veit thinks it is unethical for academics to monetize Substack:

I do not believe paywalls for the public writing of professors are ethical. They violate many of the values that most of us academics usually stand up for.

The v...

20 days ago
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The Schmotte-and-Bailey Fallacy

The most striking thing about effective altruism, dialectically, is that it’s a neglected truism:

Moral truisms may still be widely ignored. The moral truism underlying Effective Altruism is that we have strong reasons to do more good, a...

a month ago
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Why I'm Optimistic about Moral Philosophy

Many people are drawn to the cynical view that we will inevitably believe whatever is most convenient or in our self-interest to believe. I think that view is far too strong: While motivated reasoning is a real phenomenon, it’s far from imp...

a month ago
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