Richard Y. Chappell🔸
@RYChappell
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Academic Philosopher. Posts better stuff at https://t.co/jwkU1JxzCj 🔸10% Pledge #54 with @GivingWhatWeCan
Miami, FL
Joined September 2011
Maybe I'll take this opportunity to re-share some of my favourite posts. 🧵.(1) 'My Big Ideas' highlights and explains five major themes from my work.
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RT @pegobry_en: By the way, climate change is a good analogy, here. The fertility crises poses at least as much of a threat to the future….
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Why should life or death decisions turn on a question so empty and trivial as mere metaphysical taxonomy?
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Sadly this is incompatible with having complete and coherent beliefs on ~any interesting philosophical topic.
My meta-philosophy: Don’t believe crazy things.
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After the Spike is a vital corrective to all those still suck in the 1970s “population bomb” mindset of thinking that we have “too many people on the planet already”, and should welcome having fewer people in future.
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I got several iterations in, with ~5000 lines of code, before the first warning that I was approaching usage limits (on the cheapest Claude Pro plan).
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Tired of the limitations of Claude's "artifacts", I finally installed Claude Code and spent the day playing around with it. I can literally just describe a game concept and have it create a simple working version. And then expand (and debug) with further instructions. Wild.
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Are there reasons to doubt the objectivity of moral truths that aren’t equally reasons to doubt the objectivity of metaethical claims like “there are no objective moral truths”?
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"The Bug-me-not Blues" tells the tale of a troubled philanthropist who hit upon an unorthodox solution to the Meat Eater Problem. (inspired by @MichaelDPlant and @Benthamsbulldog ).
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At its heart, non-consequentialism is the view that moral abstractions—rights and constraints—are more important than the lives and well-being of real people. (Currently working on a book chapter that develops this objection.).
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If the status quo is genuinely atrocious, is there an inoffensive way to convey the truth of the matter?
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For more on the flaws of conventional bioethics:
There’s a striking distinction between “analytical” approaches to bioethics versus those who uncritically regurgitate whatever conventional attitudes (often highly politicized) they’ve previously imbibed.
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