Kaj_Sotala comments on 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 07 May 2014 08:36:38PM 3 points [-]

This is getting way too much into a debate over definitions so I'll stop after this comment, but I'll just point out that, among professional philosophers, there is no correlation between endorsing consequentialism and endorsing moral realism.

Comment author: blacktrance 07 May 2014 08:53:27PM *  0 points [-]

A non-consequentialist could be a moral realist as well, such as if they were a deontologist, so it's not a good measurement.

Also, consequentialism and moral realism aren't always well-defined terms.

Edit: That survey's results are strange. Twenty people answered that they're moral realists but non-cognitivists, though moral realism is necessarily cognitivist.