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The sequences are definitely philosophy, but written (mostly) without referencing the philosophers who have given (roughly) the same arguments or defended (roughly) the same positions.
I really like Eliezer's way of covering many of these classic debates in philosophy. In other cases, for example in the meta-ethics sequence, I found EY's presentation unnecessarily difficult.
Near the end of the meta-ethics sequence, Eliezer wrote that he chose to postpone reading Good and Real until he finished writing about meta-ethics because otherwise he might not finish it. For most of his life, writing for public consumption was slow and tedious, and he often got stuck. That seemed to change after he started blogging daily on Overcoming Bias, but the change was recent enough that he probably questioned its permanence.