Jim Holt’s sober review of Daniel Kahneman’s new book (Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman — Book Review – NYTimes.com) is wisely cautionary. An excerpt: “Even if we could rid ourselves of the biases and illusions identified in this book — and Kahneman, citing his own lack of progress in overcoming them, doubts … Continue reading
“The important point, however, is that there must be some normative principles bearing on PAs [propositional attitudes] to the effect that we ought to modify our PAs because of how they are. Rational normative principles are of the form that if one has such and such PAs then one ought to modify them in such … Continue reading
Encapsulated as only an artist can.
I’ll cop to the charge of questionable judgment when I thought it fitting to christen my meta-normative position ‘normative nihilism’. I was trying to be provocative but for the most part no one noticed. So I appreciate that Stephen Finlay thought me footnote-worthy in his 2010 Analysis survey of “Recent Work on Normativity”.
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