Lance Independent
Lance S. Bush, Tommy Blanchard, Ishmael HodgesA blog about metaethics, metaphilosophy, and moral psychology.
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Mud begets more muddlement
Excerpt from “A Compendium on Naravost, Volume 4: Religions and Cultural Practices”:
If one ascends the northernmost peaks along the eastern coast of the continent, about a week’s ride north from Thades, one will find a most curious commun...
There are no Unconditional Pragmatic Reasons to be a Value Realist
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1.0 Introduction
According to JPA, there are strong pragmatic reasons for the ordinary person to endorse value realism, the view that there are stance-independent values. JPA is mistaken. The ordinary per...
Both Sides Brigades comments on my recent critique and accuses me of doing philosophy on "easy mode"
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Both Sides Brigade (BSB) made some comments about this recent critical response. Let’s have a look.
Someone let me know that Lance Bush just put out a truly gargantuan response to an old post of mine...
Both Sides Brigade Doesn't Understand the Unintelligibility Thesis
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[Edited to add on 6/23/2026, at 9:25 AM ET]
Here’s a TL;DR for what motivated this post.
I stopped interacting with BSB some time ago. However, I recently discovered BSB had written a critique of the Uninte...
Philosophical intuitions aren't hunches: A response to Disagreeable Me
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Disagreeable Me (DM) has provided some commentary on my critical response to Bookbinder here. I respond to DM here.
1.0 The Mundane/Distinctive Spectrum
In my critique, I argue that the conceptions...
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I'm a researcher that focuses on the psychology of metaethics, metaphilosophy, and methodological issues in experimental philosophy. See my Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/lanceindependent
PhD in neuroscience, degrees in philosophy and computer science, postdoctoral training at Harvard. I write about science and philosophy of mind. Occasional science fiction author.
Just a high-power low-confidence potato. Temper your expectations accordingly. “When the going gets tough, just lower your standards and smile.” Max Platte (my drunk ex-roommate, you wouldn’t know him.)
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