BRYAN CAPLAN
May 7, 2013
Keynesian Bets: What's Out There
May 6, 2013
Keynesian Bets Bleg
May 6, 2013
The Pyramid of Macroeconomic Insight and Virtue
May 2, 2013
A Natalist Provision
May 1, 2013
I Was a Teenage Misanthrope
DAVID HENDERSON
May 5, 2013
John Thacker on Vaccinations and the Sequester
May 3, 2013
Chef Rudy's Virtues Project
May 2, 2013
My take on Reinhart and Rogoff
May 1, 2013
Medicare Kills a Program
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Moral cognitivism does not imply moral realism. There are at least two types of moral cognitivism (1. error theory, 2. cognitivist expressivism) which are not realist. 2 is quite popular now-a-days.
Your not being a theist points up an issue that most libertarians seem to studiously avoid: what is the basis for the value libertarianism places on individual freedom? If it's not gounded in consequentialist arguments, then what's the source?
Yes, you place great value in neuro and evolutionary psychology, both of which are deterministic. How do you come up with free will?
When the original survey came out I was surprised to find so many people accept the analytic-synthetic distinction.
'Your not being a theist points up an issue that most libertarians seem to studiously avoid: what is the basis for the value libertarianism places on individual freedom? If it's not gounded in consequentialist arguments, then what's the source?'
Silly consequentialists. What is the value that consequencialists place on their consequences? Ultimately at its base all value is arbitrary and subjective (Thanks Menger). The consequencialists just try to take a few steps removed from that to convince themselves that it isn't so.
Ultimately utility functions have no basis, except for ideological evolution; individuals with bad utility functions fail to pass on their memes.
"a .20 correlation with Normative ethics: consequentialism"
based on the link, shouldn't that be "not Normative ethics: consequentialism"? which, obviously, makes more sense: theists are generally not consequentialists.
@Kzndr
Consequencialists are still normative ethictists. They say "this is bad because of what it leads to" that is still a normative claim.
I wish more people (including Bryan/Arnold/David) were interested in discussing this topic. IMO it's a 300-pound gorilla sharing the room with libertarians.