Part 2 of the discussion! (Part 1 here: [ Ссылка ] )
Topics
- Phasing out involuntary suffering in the natural world
- Reprogramming predators
- Repugnant conclusions and reductio ad-adsurdems
- Virtue ethics trust of intuition to help choose what is virtuous - utilitarians may not trust intuition as much
- investigating common ground that may be found from a range of approaches to ethics
- There needs to be a focus on the end points of particular approaches to ethics - a classical hedonistic utilitarian approach may end up in a utilitronium shockwave, a negative utilitarian approach may end up switching the universe off for the sake of a pin prick...
- thought experiment: if you were presented with an off button and a copy button, would you turn off the universe or copy it? or would you not press any button?
- to what extent is our inclination to preserve the world as it is today a reflection of status-quo bias?
- the extent to which ones conception of life, the universe and everything is just a disguised autobiography
- Effective Altruism
- People seem more virtuous if the spotlight is upon them
- The Is - Ought problem - can one get an ought from an is? Inductive support for decision making - so science can inform ethics
- Did our genes design us to flourish? David suggests that our genes did not
- Is virtue quantifiable? relative to how the brain and biology works? Or does one need to draw from local culture & social norms?
- Friends rejoicing in each others failings
- Inner and outer dimensions to ones ethics - should ones ascribed ethics be informed by ones actions, and/or what one believes about oughts?
- Heart of philosophy - a series of philosophy cafes
- Philosophy and the community - philosophy in action
- the History of Moral Philosophy in Australia
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