Other Ethics Forums?

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Other Ethics Forums?

Postby LJM1979 on 2012-11-17T16:47:00

I was wondering if there are any other ethics forums that you use. I'm thinking of either ones focusing on one particular perspective (like deontology or virtue ethics) or with a broader focus. I consider myself a utilitarian but I like interacting with a broad audience. I apologize if it's not kosher to discuss other forums here - the mods can remove this post if they'd like too. (Alternatively, posting in different forums could be a good way to advertise this forum.)

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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby peterhurford on 2012-11-17T19:19:00

Talk of other ethics forums is completely fine, in my opinion.

I didn't know of any forums off hand, so I did a quick Google search of a few different terms and reviewed some of what came up. The St. James Ethics Centre Forum seems somewhat active, though I cannot tell at all what kind of ethical "framework" they're approaching things from.

There's the Ethics Section of the Philosophy Forum, with a mix of frameworks being applied by different people to questions, some of which are utilitarians.

A very active Christian Ethics forum. Have at it, but be wary of their very limiting rules.

I couldn't find any other active ethics forums, but I didn't search for that long.
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby RyanCarey on 2012-11-19T07:50:00

Another user-contributed page in a partially overlapping area is rationality community www.lesswrong.com
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby Ruairi on 2012-11-19T21:19:00

peterhurford wrote:some of which are utilitarians.


Putting the idea of contacting people on ethics forums about the EA movement in a file :)
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby Arepo on 2012-11-20T14:23:00

I spent a bit of time reading the St James forum, and it was almost unrecognisably different from this one, so I wouldn't invest too much time into it.
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby peterhurford on 2012-11-20T17:13:00

Arepo wrote:I spent a bit of time reading the St James forum, and it was almost unrecognisably different from this one, so I wouldn't invest too much time into it.


It's really interesting to see how other people think.
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby Arepo on 2012-11-20T17:39:00

I don't mean people shouldn't visit, just that they shouldn't be a high priority target for EA meme propagation.
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby peterhurford on 2012-11-20T20:37:00

Yeah, I'd agree with that. They're not exactly low hanging fruit.
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Re: Other Ethics Forums?

Postby peterhurford on 2012-11-23T02:15:00

Speaking of how to grab low hanging fruit, I want to mention we've had a very relevant discussion over at "Helping Along "Shallow" Utilitarians".
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