I'm posting this in preparation for Draft Amnesty Week (Feb 24- March 2), but please also use this thread for posts you don't plan to write for Draft Amnesty. The last time I posted this question, there were some great responses.
If you have multiple ideas, I'd recommend putting them in different answers, so that people can respond to them separately.
It would be great to see:
- Both spur-of-the-moment vague ideas, and further along considered ideas. If you're in that latter camp, you could even share a google doc for feedback on an outline.
- Commenters signalling with Reactions and upvotes the content that they'd like to see written.
- Commenters responding with helpful resources or suggestions.
- Commenters proposing Dialogues with authors who suggest similar ideas, or which they have an interesting disagreement with (Draft Amnesty Week might be a great time for scrappy/ unedited dialogues).
Draft Amnesty Week
If the responses here encourage you to develop one of your ideas, Draft Amnesty Week (February 24- March 2) might be a great time to post it. Posts tagged "Draft Amnesty Week" don't have to be thoroughly thought through or even fully drafted. Bullet points and missing sections are allowed. You can have a lower bar for posting.
Mid-Realist Ethics:
I occasionally bring up my meta-ethical views in blog posts, but I keep saying I’ll write a more dedicated post on the topic and never really do. A high level summary includes stuff like: “ethics” as I mean it has a ton of features that “real” stuff has, but it lacks the crucial bit which is actually being a real thing. The ways around this tend to fall into one of two major traps – either making a specific unlikely empirical prediction about the view, or labeling a specific procedure “ethics” in a way that has no satisfying difference from just stating your normative ethics view - and a couple thought experiments make me unpersuaded that I’m really interested in a realist view anyway. I discuss these things a bit in this comments thread.
I would also plan to talk about the role different kinds of intuitions play in both my ethical reasoning and in my “unethical” reasoning, something I keep mentioning but not developing in blog posts, especially these two. I don’t really have anything written for this, so I might just collect snippets from these sources and supplement with bullet-point type additions if I go with this idea.