This is my second post about Vulcans: creatures that value and pursue goals, but do not have any feelings of pleasure or displeasure. In the first post I claimed that Vulcans cannot care about their goals in a morally significant way. That is, they cannot care about their goals in a way that gives them a reason to pursue those goals, or gives us a reason to avoid interfering with them. They do not have an
Vulcans Part 2: Caring & (Dis)Pleasure
Vulcans Part 2: Caring & (Dis)Pleasure
Vulcans Part 2: Caring & (Dis)Pleasure
This is my second post about Vulcans: creatures that value and pursue goals, but do not have any feelings of pleasure or displeasure. In the first post I claimed that Vulcans cannot care about their goals in a morally significant way. That is, they cannot care about their goals in a way that gives them a reason to pursue those goals, or gives us a reason to avoid interfering with them. They do not have an