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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Causal Closure Argument?
I'm a little worried about causal closure arguments or causal exclusion arguments because I think they're going to, in the end, exclude too much if we think that everything can ultimately be explained. Then that leaves little room for beliefs and desires, for instance, to do in explaining. Unless you think that a belief is nothing other than an arrangement to fermions and bosons. That's a view that some people have held in the philosophy of mind, but not many people hold. It's just saying there might be some worrying implications of that causal exclusion argument. On the one hand, you jettison moral features from the metaphysics, but you might have to jettison a lot
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