And I guess you’re making the general point that I shouldn’t put too much stake into “my sequence hasn’t gotten much in terms of concrete pushback,” because it could well be that there are people who would have concrete pushback but don’t think it’s worth commenting since it’s not clear if many people other than myself would be interested. That’s fair!
Yeah, I should have framed my reply in these terms instead of my personal prioritization. Thanks for doing the interpretive work here.
(But then, probably more people than just me would be interested in a post or sequence on why moral realism is true, for reasons other than deferring, so those object-level arguments should better be put online somewhere!)
There must be a lot of academic papers posted online by philosophers who defend moral realism? For example Knowing What Matters by Richard Y Chappell (who is also in EA). There are also a couple of blog posts by people in EA:
But I haven’t read these and don’t know if they engage with your specific arguments against moral realism. If they haven’t, and you can’t find any sources that do, maybe write a post highlighting that, e.g., “Here are some strong arguments against moral realism that hasn’t been addressed anywhere online”. Or it would be even stronger if you can make the claim that they haven’t been addressed anywhere period, including the academic literature.
Yeah, I should have framed my reply in these terms instead of my personal prioritization. Thanks for doing the interpretive work here.
There must be a lot of academic papers posted online by philosophers who defend moral realism? For example Knowing What Matters by Richard Y Chappell (who is also in EA). There are also a couple of blog posts by people in EA:
https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/moral-truth-without-substance
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/n5bePqoC46pGZJzqL/debate-morality-is-objective
But I haven’t read these and don’t know if they engage with your specific arguments against moral realism. If they haven’t, and you can’t find any sources that do, maybe write a post highlighting that, e.g., “Here are some strong arguments against moral realism that hasn’t been addressed anywhere online”. Or it would be even stronger if you can make the claim that they haven’t been addressed anywhere period, including the academic literature.