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Introduction

video is blue man group feast eating vomit
 

Getting Started

Doing Philosophy

do the food-sharing skit before showing this

ethical behaviours, e.g. food sharing

There are behaviours which have ethical significance such as caring for another, cooperating with her, sanctioning her for something she does or fails to do, shunning her, enslaving her, and so on.

I am attending an event at the University of Warwick.

It is right to protect one’s children from lethal danger.

It is right to protect human corpses from being eaten.

It is wrong to vomit over another person and then eat it.

Harris will be the next US President.

I hope everyone will agree that they are more confident in the star proposition than in the hexagon proposition.
What about this proposition? How confident are you compared to the other two?

What are the sources of ethical knowledge?

Apparently we do not just have ethical abilities. We also have knowledge of ethical propositions in whatever sense we have knowledge of ordinary, non-ethical propositions.
And, quite plausibly, ethical knowledge is an enabler for many of our ethical abilities.

‘When I have an intuition [...] I am defeasibly justified in believing that things are as they appear to me to be. That fact [...] opens the door to the possibility of moral knowledge.’

(Kagan, 2023, p. 167)

What is an intuition?

A person’s intuitions are the claims they take to be true independently of whether those claims are justified inferentially.
I referred to the online handout already. This is one way that university differs from A Level.
The lecture will normally require quite a bit of work. You should probably study the handout after the lecture and you may need to read some of the sources it cites.
You don’t usually need to understand everything in a lecture (unless it’s logic, say). But you do want to have a good understanding of the bits that most interest you.
For each hour of lecture, spend an hour going over notes and doing some reading.