tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post1129938026623573002..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: What Should I Do? Desires Sufficient for ReasonsAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-48815610577163574812016-01-22T12:11:12.444-07:002016-01-22T12:11:12.444-07:00Thank you for the compliment.
With respect to gra...Thank you for the compliment.<br /><br />With respect to graduate school, I am sitting and waiting for a response.<br /><br />This series of articles shows what I need graduate school for. I need somebody familiar with this stuff to either (a) tell me where my thinking went off the rails, or (2) tell me how to write something up that I can get published in a medium that these people will read.<br /><br />I don't know about a book from Oxford University Press (though that would certainly be fine), but it would be great just to have a couple of lines in an article such as this that says, "One option is to reject these intuitions as providing evidence that desires are not sufficient for reason. Fyfe (2017) creates a scenario to show that the desire to eat a saucer of mud is no different than a desire to eat an extra bagel or muffin that is desired for its own sake. If the former does not create reasons for action, according to Fyfe, then neither does the latter."<br /><br />That would be sweet.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-86470890782373615012016-01-21T15:41:33.771-07:002016-01-21T15:41:33.771-07:00Thank you Alonzo for doing this series. I began re...Thank you Alonzo for doing this series. I began reading Peter Singer's 'Point of View of the Universe' but grew frustrated since he assumed so many of the things you've been mentioning including this post about desires not being sufficient for reasons. I agree this view is very prevalent and wrong. <br /><br /><br />I hope your graduate program goes well. I hope once you get that degree, we'll see a book from you published by Oxford or Cambridge or another publisher (if that's what you choose to do). Good luck!Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389298711813091852noreply@blogger.com