Premises

• People with resources have a duty to use them for the good of the most agents; there is something wrong with acquiring luxuries in a world of starvation and existential risk.
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• The most pressing and tractable causes are, overwhelmingly, health interventions in the poor world and reducing animal suffering. Lessening the chance of the world ending is a candidate but we don't really know how tractable it is.
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• There is enough fiction in the world. Probably enough art in general.
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• The Left/Right model is a damaging reification.
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• Markets fail in healthcare.Confidence:
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• Strong emotion, intuition and identity is bad for clear thought.
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PHILOSOPHY


• The truth and justification of ideas are much more important than their history.
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• The context of discovery is not irrelevant to an idea; ideas are not ahistorical.
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• The radical sceptic can't be defeated in the Greek or Cartesian problematics.
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• Even so, we have all kinds of fallible knowledge. (Epistemic externalism.)
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• Bayesianism is the least problematic approach to philosophy of science and practical reason.
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(Hermeneutic anarchism)

(Structural realist)