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Category: Science
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This article notes that "a plethora of psychological studies" on "the connection between prudence, morality, and the metaphysics of the self" strongly "suggest that people who score high on the Future Self Continuity measure have higher moral standards" (h/t 'heap of links' @ Daily Nous). It would be interesting if some philosophical theory of prudence…
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Humans are not animals according to Descartes’ distinction of res cogitans and res extensa. They are also not animals according to many Christian theologians (Jesus came to save humans, not animals). Perhaps humans are not (only) animals also according to the Aristotelian definition of human beings as “rational animals”, which attributes to humans alone a…
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Sorry for posting so sporadically lately. It's partly that I've been insanely busy, but also partly due to my first bout with blog writers block (or "bloggers bloq", if I may coin a new term!). Anyway, although I've been swamped — with term papers, job applications, an R-n-R, etc — on one of my momentary…
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For anyone interested in experimental philosophy and/or moral philosophy: Don Loeb and I are writing the entry for "Experimental Moral Philosophy" for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This is a daunting task, given the huge amount of interesting and diverse work that's relevant. On my blog, I'm going to be posting drafts of the sections…