Meghan Sullivan
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first heard Jun 2017
last heard Jun 2017
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These differences of compensation, they are not arbitrary.
They're the kinds of things that a rational agent is allowed to care about.
They do presuppose that it's you that's gonna make that withdrawal at the end, or it's you that's gonna exist in five or ten minutes and not another person.
But, you know, there's metaphysical theories of personal identity that are pretty damn good that can explain why it is you and can back up this kind of non arbitrary theory of compensation.
I think that's a pretty good answer.
I also think at the end of the day
Philosophers need to take our intuitions as data in building our theories.
And most of us do assume there's a pretty obvious distinction between prudential rationality and altruism.
I think I'm doing something very different when I put money in my retirement account than when I give money to an elderly woman who lives in my neighborhood.
I think unless we have a really overwhelmingly plausible story about why these distinctions aren't real, we should build a theory that respects them, and it's probably a good making feature of a theory if it has a distinction between altruism and prudence.
Yeah, so some philosophers think most recently and notably LA Paul
think that if you're gonna undergo some like sudden radical change, that makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to use certain strategies to plan for the future.
Paul seems to indicate in her transformative experience book that if you're not able to adequately imagine what it will feel like from the inside after a potential change, then you're not able to ration apply like expected utility theory to decide whether or not you want that change.
So here's an example.
You're deciding whether or not you should go off to war.
And you think like some people that go off to war they end up finding it to be like a really difficult but ultimately very um satisfying experience.
They develop courage, they develop really close camaraderie with their fellow soldiers.
Other people go off to war are just destroyed by it.
Either way, after you go to war, like nothing would ever be the same for you.
think like, well can you rationally decide whether or not to go to war?
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