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Oh, I see. And we may be talking at cross purposes. My point is, if there are facts of any kind, then opinions about them are irrelevant. Iow, we can and do have our own opinions, but we can't have our own facts. For example, is physics 'subjective' in the way you say morality is? If there are fact...

Boyd: How to be a Moral Realist https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29683 Boyd claimed moral facts exist in parallel to scientific facts. His basis is that of Homeostatic property-cluster For example 'health' [healthiness] is an objective fact represented by a cluster of natural...

I have given you a long list of counters to your argument. Just show me one where you have solidly countered my argument. Whatever mistakes you think I have committed is based the grounding of your reality on an illusion. Kant's supposedly anti-realist claim - that 'the human mind' constructs reali...

I have given you a long list of counters to your argument. Just show me one where you have solidly countered my argument. Whatever mistakes you think I have committed is based the grounding of your reality on an illusion. Kant's supposedly anti-realist claim - that 'the human mind' constructs reali...

I've no idea why you are persisting with this delusion. You are deliberately ignoring my argument. You do not have an argument. You have a delusion. I persist because I have hope for humanity's moral progress grounded on moral objectivity and moral realism. If you have hope for humanity than why ar...

Arguments against moral objectivism Following the preliminaries in my previous post, here's the first of my inter-related arguments. 1 The existence of moral facts Moral objectivism is the claim that there are moral facts – moral things, properties or events - that are or were the case, regardless ...

I've been accused of failing to provide any rational argument for my moral anti-objectivism. So, picking up Flash's strategy of setting out an argument sequentially, here's part 1 of a paper I've published: 'Arguments against moral objectivism' - dealing with preliminaries. Any pushback would be we...

I've been accused of failing to provide any rational argument for my moral anti-objectivism. So, picking up Flash's strategy of setting out an argument sequentially, here's part 1 of a paper I've published: 'Arguments against moral objectivism' - dealing with preliminaries. Any pushback would be we...

You are assuming that your personal moralism is progress. Progress can take avenues that you cannot predict. It was decided by the Nazis that it was a moral imperitive that Germans only mated with other Germans and that all were to be judged by the degree to which each had German ancestry. This was...

Where and How Rorty in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature misinterpreted Kant; I have never assimilated the writings of Descartes or Locke with sufficient care to assess Rorty's competence to discuss, much less dismiss, them. I have, however, done so with respect to those of Kant and can affirm...

Rorty’s Ambivalent Relationship With Kant James Tartaglia Abstract I argue that Kant is a key figure in understanding Rorty’s work, by drawing attention to the fact that although he is ostensibly the principal villain of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, at the end of that book Kant provides the...

Why. I thought you were interested in objective morality Definitely I am interested in objective morality. It is that inbreeding avoidance is scientific objective and morally objective, that humans are nudging slowly to comply and align with this moral standard [objectivity]. In this modern era, mo...

He is doing me a favor in his burning down of Analytical Philosophy and its linguistic turn, however I reject his claim that he had burned my [& the Kantian] philosophical stance. Whatever is of Rorty in his 'Mirror of Nature,' it has no significant counter to Kantian-philosophy-proper. Eeeeeh,...

Example already given of European Royal families. Also Pharoahs of Egypt, and anthropologically look up endogamy. But in animal breeding the examples are legion. My point was with reference to the modern era in relation to humans-in-general who has the full knowledge of the negative consequences of...

My point is that you haven't actually read chapter 1. He doesn't merely attack mind-independence. He attacks the either-or mindset too. He attacks the problem; as well as the solution to the problem; and even the approach to preventing the problem which causes its own set of problems. Rorty is an a...