Philosophy TV - Joshua Knobe and Andy Egan on Moral Relativism and Folk Psychology

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Joshua Knobe and Andy Egan

September 19th, 2010

Knobe explains his surprising research suggesting that folk intuitions are are more closely aligned with relativism than philosophers often assume. Egan describes his ongoing work on relativist semantics. Knobe presses Egan on whether Egan’s views provide a satisfactory account of moral disagreement and of the grounds for criticism of an ideally coherent sadist. Along the way, they discuss whether philosophical analysis of shared concepts ought to be “hermeneutic” or “revolutionary.”

Related works

by Egan:
“Relativism about Epistemic Modals” (forthcoming)
“Epistemic Modals, Relativism, and Assertion” (2007)

by Knobe:
with et al., “Folk Moral Relativism” (forthcoming)

See also:
John Burgess and Gideon Rosen, A Subject With No Object (1997)
Experimental Philosophy: Hagop Sarkissian, Are People Actually Moral Objectivists?

More video:
Joshua Knobe’s diavlogs (BhTV)

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