Peter Singer, the world's most influential moral philosopher? *giggle* I'm beginning to take your self-description more seriously: "Most
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Name a more influential living moral philosopher then.
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The term "moral philosophers" is generally reserved for religious philosophers. Most refer to them as ethicists now. Many are at top uni's.
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Have any of them launched two big moral movements (animal welfare, Effective Altruism) & reduced suffering of billions of sentient beings?
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I'm so confused. Do you honestly believe he started the Animal Welfare movement? This is why scientists should learn a little abt humanities
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Do you honestly believe that you'll convince people by acting patronizing, belligerent, and tendentious? Good luck with that.
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Most influential _____. Controversial at least. Again, the current theme here is speculation, coulda woulda shoulda kinda "science".
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Not controversial. Who's sold more books, received more video views, saved more sentient lives, raised more for charity, than Singer?
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influential and philosopher seem like a paradox
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He inspired the whole Effective Altruism movement, and the whole animal welfare movement.
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this doesn't make him influential among moral philosophers.
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Peter Singer is not the world's most influential moral
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Yeah, that must explain why he wrote a book titled 'A Darwinian Left', about reconciling his Darwinism with his Leftist politics.
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I read that book, it's garbage. He purposely misrepresents Marxism and is presenting views sympathetic to individualism.
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Mostly agree. But...Here is what we don't know (or maybe you do?) 1/ "The target..was the idea that..women .. make up half the..workforce"
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Really? Has Google said this? What are true details Goggle's Afirmative Action efforts? That matters... And 2) ...
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What did the memo's author do *besides* write this memo? Does he have documented performance issues with women team members he belittled?
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Giving first interviews to alt-right and MRA activists does not help his case that this was dispassionate.
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His case is not that he was dispassionate. His case is that he expressed views which were unwelcome at Google, and the statements confirm it
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Google undoubtedly needs to be held to acct over censorship and poss wrongful dismissal but as of July 2016 81% of technical staff were men.
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Number of women in tech is only slightly higher than the number serving in the military (16%)
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