Meta-Philosophy

TagLast edit: 13 Jan 2021 22:30 UTC by plex

Meta-philosophy or metaphilosophy (with no hyphen) is the philosophy of philosophy itself. According to the wikipedia article, “its subject matter includes the aims of philosophy, the boundaries of philosophy, and its methods”.

Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy

Wei_Dai10 Feb 2019 0:28 UTC

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Metaphilosophical Mysteries

Wei_Dai27 Jul 2010 0:55 UTC

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A revolution in philosophy: the rise of conceptual engineering

Suspended Reason2 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC

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Normativity and Meta-Philosophy

Wei_Dai23 Apr 2013 20:35 UTC

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Deliberation as a method to find the “actual preferences” of humans

riceissa22 Oct 2019 9:23 UTC

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We Don’t Have a Utility Function

[deleted]2 Apr 2013 3:49 UTC

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On the purposes of decision theory research

Wei_Dai25 Jul 2019 7:18 UTC

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Metaphilosophical competence can’t be disentangled from alignment

zhukeepa1 Apr 2018 0:38 UTC

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My take on agent foundations: formalizing metaphilosophical competence

zhukeepa1 Apr 2018 6:33 UTC

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Normativity

abramdemski18 Nov 2020 16:52 UTC

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Recursive Quantilizers II

abramdemski2 Dec 2020 15:26 UTC

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Three Approaches to “Friendliness”

Wei_Dai17 Jul 2013 7:46 UTC

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AI Alignment, Philosophical Pluralism, and the Relevance of Non-Western Philosophy

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC

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Learning Normativity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC

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The importance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC

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Unity of Doctrine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC

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Continental Philosophy as Undergraduate Mathematics

Jan26 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC

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(universalprior.substack.com)

Do meta-memes and meta-antimemes exist? e.g. ‘The map is not the territory’ is also a map

M. Y. Zuo7 Aug 2022 1:17 UTC

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Simulacra Levels in Literature

Miniman2 Oct 2022 21:13 UTC

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Solving For Meta-Ethics By Inducing From The Self

TheAspiringHumanist20 Jan 2023 7:21 UTC

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A Somewhat Functional Definition of Philosophy

Richard Henage27 Feb 2023 0:25 UTC

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