Two things:

• Normative fictionalism fascinates and attracts me. Ask me about it some time. Does it explain my current moral position? It might. It suits me for all sorts of reasons, although it might be lacking in logical core (it certainly isn't lacking in fluffy and colorful poetic rhetoric.) If the current moral project doesn't work out, I ( Read more... )

Are you all familiar with Schrödinger's cat? The gist is that you have a cat in a box with a bottle of toxins that's triggered to release its deadly poisonous fumes when a particular atom's nucleus decays. Quantum mechanically, the atom's unobserved nucleus is not necessarily either decayed or not. It can exist in a state that's mixed--it exists ( Read more... )