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RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 30th 2020.
Dr. Hanno Sauer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University. His main research interests are in moral psychology and empirically informed metaethics. He is interested in whether and how we can bring empirical data from diverse disciplines such as social psychology, neuroscience or cognitive science to bear on questions of normative and/or metaethical interests, and what the limits of this approach are. He is the author of Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions (2017), Debunking Arguments in Ethics (2018), and Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow (2018).
In this episode, we tackle lots of approaches, challenges and arguments in (meta)ethics. We basically go through some of the biggest questions that ethics and moral philosophy try to answer. We deal with the relationship between science and ethics, and the is-ought gap. We discuss intuitionism, moral realism, evolutionary psychology and moral relativism, and moral nihilism. We address the recent literature on human rationality. We talk about the anti-rationalist and the emotionist challenge. We touch on Moral Foundations Theory, and the implications it might have for ethics and moral philosophy. We get into the argument from agreement and the argument from disagreement, and the challenges they pose to moral realism. We also talk about the educated intuitions account of morality. Finally, we discuss if moral progress really exists.
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00:55 Why it is not a good idea to speculate about the moral nature of the human mind without scientifically investigating how it works
07:39 Is there a way to bridge the is-ought gap?
17:08 Does all ethics boil down to intuitions?
26:41 Is there still any room for moral realism nowadays?
33:15 Does evolutionary psychology force us to accept moral relativism?
50:16 Moral nihilism
57:15 Are humans rational?
1:13:11 The emotionist challenge
1:19:15 Moral Foundations Theory, and the possible implications for moral philosophy
1:27:15 The argument from agreement, and the argument from disagreement
1:36:53 The educated intuitions account of morality
1:45:26 Does moral progress really exist?
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[@DoorknobHead]

It's good to see the disciplines come together and work with each other. Any hypothesis that is supported by a of evidence from several fields seems so much more compelling and reliable at converging towards what is actually true. Especially with Philosophy it's good to see empiricism being applied since mature Philosophy can be so powerful for better thinking and epistemology, but aspects of philosophy can also be easily abused by woo-merchants to manipulate the uninformed -- it would be nice to have a more robust demonstrable demarcation of when Philosophy is being abused and is going out of bounds. This was exactly the discussion I wanted to hear in regards to Philosophy. So many wonderful nuggets. Thanx

[@Lex.Dachstein]

My moral intuition is that an add every 4 min is wrong.