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I don’t think this is the right reading (though the one reference to the intentional stance in the Atlantic piece…
Was anyone saying that beliefs and desires *suffice* for moral status? I guess if intentionality requires consciousness, and consciousness suffices…
Thanks for the reply, David, it’s given me a lot to think about.
Commenting to subscribe to this. Ring of Gyges thought experiment enthusiast, here.
Having reread late Dennett in the Atlantic and BBC it doesn’t seem he’s repudiating the “intentional stance” so much as…
The first thing to note about this study is that it took place in April, so five months ago. I…
How could acting *as if* something has beliefs and desire suffice to justify its moral status? That’s what’s at issue…
Smart strategy, one pioneered by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan in many parts of the country by holding them liable in civil court for their misdeeds.
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