There was a post about why incest was wrong. They asked if it would be okay if there weren't genetic issues with inbreeding. I said that it was only wrong because of genetic problems of inbreeding and the comment was removed. I've made similar comments and almost all have been removed. Is it because I don't speak a certain way? Is it because I'm a naturalist? Does anyone have insight?

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r/Meta_Philosophy • u/[deleted] • May 18 '20

Is metaphilosophy different than metaphysics?

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r/Meta_Philosophy • u/Phenomenolaghast • May 18 '20

Jean-Paul Sartre - The Search for a Method

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Sartre's 1960 'The Search for a Method' is a seminal piece of continental metaphilosophy. It was initially written as a supplementary essay to his larger work 'Critique of Dialectical Reason', which can be found in full through the following link as well.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/critic/sartre1.htm

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r/Meta_Philosophy • u/Phenomenolaghast • May 18 '20

Cart Ducasse - Philosophy as a Science

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Here's a link to Ducasse's 1941 'Philosophy as Science'. It appears to be a predecessor to Timothy Williamson's more recent metaphilosophy, and I would be curious to know if Williamson anywhere refers to Ducasse.

http://www.ditext.com/ducasse/duc-cont.html

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r/Meta_Philosophy • u/Phenomenolaghast • May 17 '20

Metaphilosophical questions

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For people unfamiliar with research in metaphilosophy, it can be difficult to understand what makes metaphilosophy definitive as a subdiscipline of philosophy.

The following link leads to a resource which presents a large number of important metaphilosophical questions that can help to guide inquiry among metaphilosophers, and to introduce those less familiar with the field to its interests and concerns:

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/meta/topics.htm

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