RichardChappell comments on Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardChappell 30 March 2011 09:48:34PM *  0 points [-]

Like, whether phenomenal properties just are certain physical/functional properties, or whether the two are merely nomologically co-extensive (going together in all worlds with the same natural laws as our own). This is obviously neither mathematical nor empirical. Similarly with normative questions: what's a reasonable credence to have given such-and-such evidence, etc.

See: Overcoming Scientism