Here I will try to list everything Scott has written that is relevant to understand his ethics. I imagine his views have changed along time, and the final authority on what Scott thinks is Scott, so if he has any objection to his previous selves' thoughts, he wins. One could think that the topic begins and ends with his Consequentialist FAQ, written in 2011. But one would be wrong.
For some things I provide paragraphs, or comments. In all cases, you don't need to read the comment section, I've already copyp…
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 …
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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…