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Preamble and Notes to the Reader People is always axin’ me (jk, lol, #thatneverhappens), why don’t you post your papers? The answer is that while, for the most part, I enjoy writing in my blog, for some reason I don’t like how my philosophy papers turn out. They seem sterile. Anyway, I’m posting this paper because it’s […]
Read More Critique of Kuhn: Scientific Revolutions and Semantic IncommensurabilityNotes and Thoughts on the Legal Issues Surrounding the Separation of Church and State in the Context of the Establishment ClauseOverviewSo, what’s the establishment clause? It’s the part of the first part of the first amendment that says “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion”. The free exercise clause follows it […]
Read More Separation of Church and State Part 2: The Establishment Clause and Accommodationist PositionNotes and Thoughts on Parfit’s “On What Matters”, Vol. 2, Chapter on NormativityOh! Before we start…Welcome my 100th published post! That’s a lot of rambling…Thank you for reading my stuff. Here are a couple of fun facts about my blog: Total number of visits 6787Most visits in a month 548 in Feb 2012Strangest Stat: I’ve had […]
Read More Normativity and Misunderstandings: Parfit(apology–I haven’t proof read this yet)Yo, check it. I think I might actually have my paper topic for metaFX. Stop. That would be the best DJ name for a philosopher ever, DJ metaFX. Anyway, I is going to talk about whever der is such ting as normativity in reasons–that is, whether there’s such a ting […]
Read More Normative Truth: Good and Bad Reasons. (Parfit)Pre-ambleAs I mentioned in my previous entry, most of my posts from now until the end of the semester will be me (who else?) contemplating and trying out ideas for essays. Basically, I’m apologizing in advance for what might end up as “rambling”. For my philosophy of law paper I’m thinking of doing something about […]
Read More Separation of Church and State: The Lemon TestOk, it’s term paper season. This means my posts will become infrequent and the posts that I do make will be mostly me trying to figure stuff out for papers. Without further ado, lets get into my ramblings on Parfit’s notion of normative reasons.Background on Parfit’s Normative ReasonsIn contemporary meta-ethics people talk about “reasons for […]
Read More Random Notes On Moral Reasons (Parfit)Notes and Thoughts on “Tort Law and No-Fault Car Insurance” by Murphy and ColemanRecapIn the last post we were talking about tort laws and how they might apply to car accidents/the insurance industry. Recall that tort laws are laws about legal liability. The proposal is that a no-fault system better meets our standards for justice […]
Read More Crashing your Car and Eating it Too: Part 2. Tort Law and No-Fault Car InsuranceNotes and Thoughts on “Tort Liability and Corrective Justice” by Murphy and ColemanOverviewSuppose you’re a baby and you’re driving my car because the Beatles’ song told you too. You crash the car and destroy someone’s beautiful pink flamingo lawn ornaments. Who should pay to replace the flamingos? Most reasonable people would say it’s the baby’s […]
Read More Crashing your Car and Eating it Too: Tort Law and No-Fault Car InsuranceOther Mackie ArticlesMackie on Subjectivity vs ObjectivityMackie Intro and Second vs First Order Ethics OverviewDo objective moral values or principles exist? Or are we dancer? When someone says, “it’s wrong to do x” or “you ought not to do x” it seems as though they are referring to something objective about or in the act. That is, we […]
Read More The Arguments from Queerness and Relativity (Mackie Part 2)Holy Crap! It’s 4:10am and I’m going to start this now? Am I insane? Yup. Actually, I have to do a presentation on this articles in 2 days so I’m forcing myself to get through the entire article tonight so tomorrow I can pick and choose the parts I’ll use for my presentation. I should […]
Read More Want to Discover Moral Truth? Part 3 How to Be a Moral Realist by Richard Boyd
Wrestling with Philosophy 