[Craig, previously] > Suppose I find a wallet with ID. I might keep it. > But as I deliberate, I > feel guilty & > decide to return the wallet. Then I rationalize: > the owner > was careless, why should I do them any favors?
> there is no reason to suppose > that my decision is fore-ordained before I > go thru the actual deliberation. [Dan] > you've come up with a hypothetical > scenario full of preconditioned responses But that's just what's at issue: given that I've never considered what to do with the wallet in exactly these circumstances, what reason do I have to suppose I'm not actually deliberating & not just going thru preconditioned responses?[Dan] > I am guessing that a learned man such as > Harris doesn't sway your opinion Ah, but he does. Just as James, Kant, Mill, Locke, etc. sway it in the other direction. In the end, I rely on their arguments, not their authority. Craig Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
