Good video. I agree that there are emerging opportunities for valuable empirical revisions of meta-ethics. I tend to take moral claims as truth apt simply because I take statements, rather than beliefs, to be the essential truth-bearers. RE: the poor sound quality; a good microphone with healthy gain and some compression on it can work wonders :)
We all know that people use moral language as poor substitutes for expressing an emotion but why even go through the time of considering it as "non-truth apt moral statement"? I don't think alchemy is included in the textbooks as "non-truth apt chemistry". Maybe I'm totally off base but as philosophers why should we support such dangerous mislabels?
@protipz I think you are off base here. I disagree with your generalization that people use moral language as a poor substitute for expressing emotion. Maybe the Expressivist interpretation sometimes holds true. But the evidence shows it's much more intricate than that.
I also find your analogy invalid. Alchemic claims are a kind of thing that can be true or false. As it turns out, they're always false. But that means we have an error theory, not a non-cognitivist interpretation.
Good video. I agree that there are emerging opportunities for valuable empirical revisions of meta-ethics. I tend to take moral claims as truth apt simply because I take statements, rather than beliefs, to be the essential truth-bearers. RE: the poor sound quality; a good microphone with healthy gain and some compression on it can work wonders :)
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scrufduf 1 month ago
@scrufduf Oops! So sorry, completely slipped my mind. Thank you for reminding me. I'll add them in now.
ParagonProtege 1 month ago
We all know that people use moral language as poor substitutes for expressing an emotion but why even go through the time of considering it as "non-truth apt moral statement"? I don't think alchemy is included in the textbooks as "non-truth apt chemistry". Maybe I'm totally off base but as philosophers why should we support such dangerous mislabels?
protipz 1 month ago
@protipz I think you are off base here. I disagree with your generalization that people use moral language as a poor substitute for expressing emotion. Maybe the Expressivist interpretation sometimes holds true. But the evidence shows it's much more intricate than that.
I also find your analogy invalid. Alchemic claims are a kind of thing that can be true or false. As it turns out, they're always false. But that means we have an error theory, not a non-cognitivist interpretation.
ParagonProtege 1 month ago