Amos Wollen 🦐🪰🕉️
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philosophy student • emergent ventures • tweets match the views of every institution or person I’ve ever been affiliated with/looked at (including you)
Oxford, England
Joined March 2022
Effective Altruism—which comes from the Greek “effectos” meaning utilitarianism and “alte” meaning utilitarianism—is a utilitarian theory of utilitarianism according to which we should maximise utility by stealing attention from progressive causes to promote utilitarianism. 🧵.
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RT @frances__lorenz: The inevitable has happened. I've launched a podcast! It's called The World Can Be Better ✨.EP 1: Should you be worrie….
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RT @dustin_crummett: got my physical copy of the psychophysical harmony paper. interested to see what philosophers get up to now that we kn….
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When hylomorphism stops being true.
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Proponents of the free will defence have been real quiet since this dropped.
things i HATE:.- choosing.- being told “it’s upto you”.-having a choice .- being made to choose.- picking things .- being told to choose.- choosing when i don’t know.- CHOOSING.
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Ok but what do you mean by that, how did you come to that conclusion, and have you ever considered [—]?
Most apologetic "tactics" feel like cheap tricks. This is because the tactics don't emerge naturally out of a well-developed theory. Such a theory uses the best insights from philosophy and theology. Such a theory is deeply rooted in Scripture and constantly interacts with it.
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[Stephen Kershnar] ‘This book argues that beating Gandhi over the head with a lumpy stick isn’t wrong. If beating Gandhi over the head with a lumpy stick is wrong then it’s either a property of the right or a property of the good. But there is no right or good. So it follows that.
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Medhananda is completely brilliant.
New in the Cambridge Elements series: Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism by Swami Medhananda, free online until Aug. 27
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RT @EPButler: New in the Cambridge Elements series: Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism by Swami Medhananda, free online until Aug. 27 https://t.….
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Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century Philosophy - Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism
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So basically, two-boxing is where you take back control of your life - you lose money, but you feel better since you’re doing the right thing. One-boxing is where they pay you to be irrational - sure you make money, but it’s not worth the price of your soul.
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Most religions say history will go from worse to better, instead of better → worse or zig-zaggedly ping-ponging from good times to bad ones. Does theism predict that history will have a particular axiological shape? . Find out in my latest article. 👇😇
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“What is a woman?” is not an important question. The only thing it matters for is the ethics of belief and speech, and even there it’s of surprisingly little importance . (link below) ⬇️
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