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Eliezer,
When I wrote the post I didn't know that what you meant by "reductionist-grade naturalistic cognitive philosophy" was only the very narrow thing of dissolving philosophical problems to cognitive algorithms. After all, most of the useful philosophy you've done on Less Wrong is not specifically related to that very particular thing... which again supports my point that mainstream philosophy has more to offer than dissolution-to-algorithm. (Unless you think most of your philosophical writing on Less Wrong is useless.)
Also, I don't disagree with your decision not to cover means and ends in CEV.
Anyway. Here are some useful contributions of mainstream philosophy:
Of course that's far from all there is, but it's a start.
...also, you occasionally stumble across some neato quotes, like Dennett saying "AI makes philosophy honest." :)
Note that useful insights come from unexpected places. Rawls was not a Quinean naturalist, but his concept of reflective equilibrium plays a central role in your plan for Friendly AI to save the world.
P.S. Predicate logic was removed from the original list for these reasons.
I thought Chalmers was a newbie to all this - and showed it quite a bit. However, a definite step forward from zombies. Next, see if Penrose or Searle can be recruited.