Episode 242: Losing My Religion
Very Bad Wizards
Why Evolution Is So Important for Moral Philosophy?
Moral philosophers have long been fond of using thoughtthought experiments such as the runaway trolley case, where you choose tween letting five die and killing one to save five. On my view, these intuitions can be useful in driving hypotheses, but they are not themselves a source of moral truth. They are just products of our evolved brin i have a chapter in my book, my new book, intuition pumps and other tools for thinking, where i go over ten of the most famous thought experiments and show why the intuitions they engender are illusions y. I'm grateful to dave for articulating so clearly and insistently, the mistake i've been trying to get people to see
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