My current view is this post is decent at explaining something which is “2nd type of obvious” in a limited space, using a physics metaphor. What is there to see is basically given in the title: you can get a nuanced understanding of the relations between deontology, virtue ethics and consequentialism using the frame of “effective theory” originating in physics, and using “bounded rationality” from econ.
There are many other ways how to get this: for example, you can read hundreds of pages of moral philosophy, or do a degree in it. Advantage of this text is you can take a shortcut and get the same using the physics metaphorical map. The disadvantage is understanding how effective theories work in physics is a prerequisite, which quite constrains the range of people to which this is useful, and the broad appeal.
My current view is this post is decent at explaining something which is “2nd type of obvious” in a limited space, using a physics metaphor. What is there to see is basically given in the title: you can get a nuanced understanding of the relations between deontology, virtue ethics and consequentialism using the frame of “effective theory” originating in physics, and using “bounded rationality” from econ.
There are many other ways how to get this: for example, you can read hundreds of pages of moral philosophy, or do a degree in it. Advantage of this text is you can take a shortcut and get the same using the physics metaphorical map. The disadvantage is understanding how effective theories work in physics is a prerequisite, which quite constrains the range of people to which this is useful, and the broad appeal.