Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? - Joe Carlsmith

Who needs a system if you're free?

Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? - Joe Carlsmith Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? Contents hide 1. Introduction 2. The problem 2.1 Map-making with no territory 2.2 Why curve-fit? 2.3 Who needs ethics if you’re free? 3. Some examples where this stuff comes up 3.1 Drowning children stuff 3.2 Lizard stuff 3.3 Scott Alexander on rejecting the “philosophy game” 4. I’m not trying to turn you into a lizard 5. Some kind of brute preference for consistency and systematization? 6. Money-pumps 6.1 Dialogue with an intransitive agent 6.2 Coherence isn’t free 6.3 Can we even think out

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