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NY Times Review of Moral Landscape

Posted: 13 October 2010 01:59 PM

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Although I thought the review in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/books/review/Appiah-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=moral landscape&st=cse was flawed, I was interested in the bit about the work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbuam. Can anyone address the issue of why Sam did not mention them? Their work does seem to be on topic regarding the assessment of well-being.

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Posted: 19 October 2010 09:20 PM

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Agreed. And also Sam should back up and clarify why aspects of the criticisms in the NY Times Moral Landscape book review were flawed.

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sld

Posted: 30 October 2010 05:26 AM

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From the article:

If the mental states of conscious beings are what matter, what’s wrong with killing someone in his sleep?

That has to be one of the stupidest objections to the book I have ever read. It’s not worthy of a reply. And in the NYT of all papers!!!

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