Prof Timothy Williamson - Morally Loaded Cases in Epistemology 

Edinburgh University Philosophy Society Lecture Series 2018/19
Talk Date: 27/9/2018
Speaker: Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford
Title: Morally loaded cases in Epistemology
Abstract: Morally loaded examples, e.g. those involving Nazis, are sometimes more convincing than ones you might expect to be more clear-cut based on common sense or science. I’ll illustrate the phenomenon in connection with relativism, scepticism, and internalism in epistemology. But is it legitimate, or a kind of cheating, stirring up emotions to bypass reason? I’ll argue that something subtler is going on.