http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/30/ethical-naturalism-redux/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Thu, 24 May 2012 05:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/30/ethical-naturalism-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 dsquared Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:25:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=92#comment-1497 Just to be clear; I think it would be a good thing if GAC's argument mirrored the Achilles one, because I think that one's rock-solid. Just to be clear; I think it would be a good thing if GAC’s argument mirrored the Achilles one, because I think that one’s rock-solid.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/30/ethical-naturalism-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-1496 Loren Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:50:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=92#comment-1496 GAC thinks he avoids what Achilles says to the tortoise, and what he (Jerry) says seems roughly plausible to me. But I think there's actually a naturalist response to GAC that mimics the rhetorical structure of his "facts and principles" conjecture, and forces GAC to take some stands on the metaethical issues he claims to be indifferent towards. More on this later. GAC thinks he avoids what Achilles says to the tortoise, and what he (Jerry) says seems roughly plausible to me. But I think there’s actually a naturalist response to GAC that mimics the rhetorical structure of his “facts and principles” conjecture, and forces GAC to take some stands on the metaethical issues he claims to be indifferent towards. More on this later.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/30/ethical-naturalism-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-1495 dsquared Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:47:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=92#comment-1495 It looks to me to have a distinct flavour of Lewis Carroll's argument in "Achilles and the Tortoise" which showed that in mathematical logic, inference rules have to be on a separate logical level from axioms. It looks to me to have a distinct flavour of Lewis Carroll’s argument in “Achilles and the Tortoise” which showed that in mathematical logic, inference rules have to be on a separate logical level from axioms.

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