Hume famously said that reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions. Humeans are moral non-cognitivists (emotivists, in particular), and believe moral judgements are, ultimately, just sentiments. "Inequality is bad" or "Agression is bad" wouldn't mean anything, but would just express attitudes (Boo inequality!, Ugh violence!).
There are some Humeans in the net among people I read. Here they are:
Our first Humean is Chris Dillow, who writes
Nor is it obvious that the emotions whi…
How many Austrian economists are out there? Here I present a list of them.
In a previous post (spanish), I listed some Austrian work published in listed (JCR) journals.
First, who counts as an Austrian economist? I rely on these two conditions:
Have published in an Austrian journal, not in a guest or special review, but because of a particular interest in Austrian themes
Cite positively and use meaningfully, Austrian theory and/or authors
Would anyone else think they are/are not Austrian? (Given this, feel…
There are a few around. What could be the reasons behind their communism, from their point of view?
Though I don't think the points below can be weaved in a good argument for communism [1], I think is handy to have such a list.
Dialectic materialism is true:
Falling rate of profit
Worker exploitation
Correlation between prices and labour (LTV)
Worker exploitation
Based on Marx's Labour Value Theory
For Analytical Marxistas and others, based on some other theory
Standard of living in the Soviet Union …
Existe cierto debate sobre este tema
Por un lado, tenemos el argumento clásico a favor de la tesis de irracionalidad: Si se atiende a criterios puramente monetarios, y se asume que el jugador quiere maximizar la esperanza estadística de sus ganancias, ciertamente es irracional.
Asumamos una lotería simple donde existe una probabilidad p de ganar una cantidad Q. El coste de la lotería es C. La utilidad esperada de esta lotería es pues U(Q,C,p)=p*Q-C
Normalmente p es muy pequeña, Q es muy grande y C es relati…
Algo que suele decirse de algunos debates sobre el aborto es que no hay presencia femenina en ellos. Esta posición podría acotarse entre el extremo de que debe haber al menos una mujer en cada debate, hasta el otro extremo de que, de entrada, sólo las mujeres pueden debatir sobre este tema. Aunque no se hace eso explícito, la presencia exclusiva de seis mujeres en uno de los pocos debates sobre el aborto de cierta relevancia en español (Nosotras parimos, ¿Nosotras decidimos?, La Tuerka (2013) ), puede inter…
I recently saw a tweet
https://twitter.com/NASAAero/status/681540119615135745
NASA-developed chevrons to reduce noise! Cool! But where did those really come from?
This post involves an intro about what aircraft engines are and how they work, and then an exploration of the patents that lead up to this invention, and the story of the organisations that were involved in developing them.
Aircraft Engines
The thing you see in the picture is something similar to what generates power in many large scale electrical…