User:Lucidish/Outlook
Outlook
Natural philosophy
- Metaphysics is generally irrelevant. What matters is happiness and misery. I neither know nor care about whether any god(s) exist.
- To the extent anything needs to be said about it, we may consult theoretical physics, and whatever useful methods are at our disposal.
- Nominalism is my favored method.
- To the extent anything needs to be said about it, we may consult theoretical physics, and whatever useful methods are at our disposal.
- There is a foundation for knowledge. The foundation is a method. The process of creating knowledge consists of optimally justified beliefs. This is a form of internalism.
- Arguments over the discrete and the continuous are perceptual, not metaphysical. See nominalism.
- The information of the senses is ajustified. The empirical program is founded on fog which is not itself truth-functional.
Living philosophy
- Reason (in the relevant sense, as a verb) is the set of optimal social and intellectual steps that a person ought to take when considering propositions in order to come to assent or dissent from them. Reason (as a verb) is a method, not a faculty.
- Free will has nothing to do with determinism. It is merely the conscious mind exercizing control over the body and emotions. See compatibilism.
- I believe in the fundamental rule of utilitarianism.
- Modern liberalism would satisfy the above requirements.
- A society is an arbitrarily defined set of people.
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