Richard Y. Chappell🔸
@RYChappell
Academic Philosopher. Posts better stuff at http://www.goodthoughts.blog 🔸10% Pledge #54 with @GivingWhatWeCan
Maybe I'll take this opportunity to re-share some of my favourite posts. 🧵 (1) 'My Big Ideas' highlights and explains five major themes from my work goodthoughts.blog/p/my-big-ideas
I dunno, seems to me like effective altruists and other animal advocates can live meaningful human lives?
for reasons like the reasons B. Williams rejected utilitarianism: bc living as though shrimp and humans had the same kind of value would create a life that wasn't meaningfully human, and I think right action is right because of its connection to the distinctly human form of life.
My interview with @RYChappell on effective altruism. Link below.
Referee 2: "This paper contains a claim that I didn't find obvious. Therefore it should be rejected." When stated so bluntly, few would endorse such reasoning. But so much lazy peer review in philosophy takes the form of highlighting a claim from the paper and replying, "This…
Evaluating Philosophy: "instead of chasing objections, referees should primarily aim to evaluate whether a paper sufficiently possesses the philosophical virtues that are found in the best works of philosophy" [Link in next tweet]
Why I don't trust MAGA to fix the (admittedly real) problem of political bias in academia
I find it really curious how rare it seems for people to adopt a consistent approach to both demographic and viewpoint diversity
Correction from our open-access study guide: utilitarianism.net/peter-singer-a…
As someone who has been vegan for 15 years, “speciesism” is the most braindead batshit concept ever. Killing an ant is not the same thing as killing a human being and you all fucking know it. Stop.
I feel this way about philosophy posting...
I do a fair amount of dad and husband posting that I think would ideally be unseemly in a society that was properly oriented toward family and for which the things I have to say would be obvious to everybody already