Justin Caouette, Ph.D.

Conflicting Intuitions

#philsky #philosophy #intuition
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Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk hit naval base near Iranian school The video is the latest indication of likely U.S. involvement in the attack on Feb. 28 that killed dozens of children in the southern Iranian city of Minab.

That’s four reports confirming

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Philosophy, Especially, Should Welcome Demographic Diversity - Daily Nous "Philosophy is a dialectical discipline that thrives in the clash, reconciliation, and creative synthesis of diverse views; and our views are profoundly shaped by our cultural backgrounds and life exp...

"Our views are profoundly shaped by our cultural backgrounds and life experiences. Uniformity dulls our collective philosophical thinking. A fair and flourishing discipline would treasure rather than repel those who have historically been excluded."

Happy International Women’s Day

#internationalwomensday #philsky

Women's History Month is the perfect time to listen to this series I designed about the overlooked and underrated contributions of women in philosophy.

From Hypatia to Hildegard, Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Midgley, learn about philosophy's unsung heroines!

#WomensHistoryMonth #Philosophy #PhilSky

That is, it is primarily a matter of individual people having an intuition on one side and also having an intuition on the opposite side.

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One possible view would be that it is primarily a matter of different people having different intuitions. I present evidence for the view that this is not the correct understanding. Instead, I suggest, it is primarily a matter of individual people having conflicting intuitions.

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Abstract
Research on intuitions about philosophical thought experiments shows a striking pattern. Often, there are powerful intuitions on one side and also powerful intuitions on the exact opposite side. A question now arises about how to understand this pattern.

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Conflicting Intuitions

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Until we do the same, we’ll get more of the same.

#elections #politics

I guess the board of peace is bored of peace. 🙄

#iran #boardofpeace #USisraeliwar #war

#InOurName

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

This is morally repugnant behavior! This is par the course for this administration.

#iran #warcrimes #philsky #ethics #militaryethics

This tracks! #philsky #ethics

Nice!

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

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How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

Trump has tried to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding to coerce states, punish opponents, remake programs and impose his views. His targets have repeatedly sued to stop him, the courts have repeatedly rebuked him — only for Trump to try again and again. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is morally repugnant behavior! This is par the course for this administration.

#iran #warcrimes #philsky #ethics #militaryethics

This tracks! #philsky #ethics

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

On the Social Utility of Religion From the archive: "On the Social Utility of Religion", by John Lumsden

From the archive: "On the Social Utility of Religion", by John Lumsden #Philosophy #Philsky

Please do not mistake my shitposting about the Iranian regime with any sentiment toward Iranian people, for whom I have nothing but sympathy/empathy/outrage at what is being done to them.

THAT SAID...

War comes with responsibility.

now they’ll really be after me lucky charms

I am genuinely interested in how the Hypatia transracialism controversy—as the Wikipedia entry calls it—is remembered.

In particular, I think some people remember it as the journal retracted the article, and that was a sign of the great woke censorship. (It did not.)

(Not trying to relitigate...)

There are no psychopaths

Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?

#philsky #psychology #psych #psychsky

To be fair, implying that Trump would know to put a comma thereto change the meaning is giving him far too much credit.

#iran #war #iranwar #israeliranwar #philsky #maga #hypocrisy #trump

Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness (and Maybe in Human Consciousness Too)

Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness (and Maybe in Human Consciousness Too)

blog post: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/02/disu...