Finally someone gets Philosophy! Though admittedly, most of philosophy is not about philosophy these days. It is a tradition of knowledge that has lost much of its footing (see On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge). But that’s true of much of science and shouldn’t lead us to ignore this core function of Philosophy: Study confusing questions in the absence of guiding structure.
The case of ethics as a field of Philosophy is interesting because it has been a part of it for so long. It suggests that people have tried and repeatedly failed to find a working ontology and make Ethics into its own paradigmatic field. I think this is so because ethics is genuinely difficult. Partly, because Intuitive Self-Models are so stable and useful but not veridical. But I think we will eventually succeed and be able to “Calculate the Morality Matrix.”
Finally someone gets Philosophy! Though admittedly, most of philosophy is not about philosophy these days. It is a tradition of knowledge that has lost much of its footing (see On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge). But that’s true of much of science and shouldn’t lead us to ignore this core function of Philosophy: Study confusing questions in the absence of guiding structure.
The case of ethics as a field of Philosophy is interesting because it has been a part of it for so long. It suggests that people have tried and repeatedly failed to find a working ontology and make Ethics into its own paradigmatic field. I think this is so because ethics is genuinely difficult. Partly, because Intuitive Self-Models are so stable and useful but not veridical. But I think we will eventually succeed and be able to “Calculate the Morality Matrix.”
Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/matrix