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  1. On cultures with rules against murder.

    by , July 28th 2012 at 03:47 PM (Chrs' emporium of Techie stuff and other assorted things)
    So, I'm having a discussion with Teallaura as we speak about objective versus relative morality. Teallaura is asserting that - if morality is culturally relative - we would expect a society to exist or to have existed in which murder (defined as, for the purpose of this, "malicious killing without caveat") is acceptable.

    I, unsurprisingly, do not agree.

    Unnecessary logicy bits!
    M = A society in which murder is acceptable exists.
    R = Moral relativism. ...
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  2. Librarylibrarylibrary!

    by , July 27th 2012 at 04:30 PM (Chrs' emporium of Techie stuff and other assorted things)
    I managed to pop back to my university library today. Books. Nomnomnom:
    News on the Chinese Room
    Cryptography: Theory and Practice
    The economics of equal opportunity
    Artificial Intelligence (Pearson)
    Software Metrics
    Heuristics and Biases
    Cognitive Biases

    A nice selection of Comp. Sci, philosophy and Soc. Sci. I need to get reading
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