#969 Seth Robertson: Moral Realism and Anti-Realism, Confucian Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice
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Published 2024-07-19
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RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 12th 2024.
Dr. Seth Robertson is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. His research interests include moral psychology, the history of ethics, early Chinese ethics, social epistemology, virtue ethics, and metaethics. Dr. Robertson’s research focuses on ways in which non-normative information should constrain our normative theorizing. He has written about the intersection of social intelligence and virtue ethics as well as situationist psychology and moral development in the context of early Confucian ethics, and is currently working on epistemic injustice and rhetorical manipulation.
In this episode, we start by talking about normative theorizing (with a focus on ethics), non-normative information, and how non-normative information should constrain our normative theorizing. We talk about a novel version of metaethical Humean Constructivism: “perspectival naturalism”. We also talk about a pluralist approach to ethics. We discuss Confucian ethics and its moral anti-realist features. Finally, we talk about different forms of epistemic injustice, and what predicts continuation for women in academic philosophy.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Normative theorizing, and non-normative information
10:21 How non-normative information constrains our normative theorizing
21:08 Perspectival naturalism
42:49 A pluralist approach to ethics
50:13 Confucian ethics and its anti-realist features
1:06:06 Epistemic injustice
1:19:47 What predicts continuation for women in academic philosophy?
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All Comments (5)
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I know that some of what I wrote seems incomprehensible, imaginative, or exaggerated, but that will not change the truth. I do not make predictions, but the issue revolves around the source and quality of the logic. It is almost impossible to violate the logic I have, despite the constant severe pain that affects concentration and the thought process. The so-called alleged false gods could not deceive human , so how can the irrationals deceive human ?! I know that I should not write about false gods (alien entities) because that is not believable due to the limited mental capabilities and psychological characteristics of humans, and it will affect taking the important parts of what I have written seriously , but there was no chance to escape from it (reality imposed that).
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what do you think about this? 1:45 “IT'S OVER Russell Brand “ ! is it a puppet show?
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I actually I never wrote for the current generations of humans, I only wrote for the sake of future generations of mankind (they will be able to understand what I wrote), basically large part what I wrote is not good for the current generations because of their mental capacity and their psychological characteristics in addition to that stealing and polluting what I have written is so dangerous to future generations of mankind. future generations of mankind will need all I have written clean and intact to survive (they will reach a point while they are making scientific progress where they have no chance to survive as rational intelligent human entities without knowing all I have written). I never wrote to show off or to argue with others, I wrote only based on my responsibility towards my kind (future generations of mankind).
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Can apes understand what a human is saying or even why he is screaming?! A human's scream will attract the attention of apes, but only for a few moments. Basically, human does not belong to the apes' environment, and they do not care what he does if he doesn’t interfere directly with their environment, it’s possible that the apes will try to imitate human but they will not be able to comprehend its essence. it’s better for human to imitate the apes than try to change them or teach them.
