The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law is delighted to host Professor Sophie Grace Chappell for the final workshop of the 2024/25 KJuris programme.

Title

What Ethics Might Be

Abstract

Why isn’t philosophical ethics more interested in epiphanies? I don’t mean that epiphanies are the only thing that ethical philosophers should be allowed to talk about. But I do wonder why moral philosophers don’t more often start with some careful and accurate examination of our experience of value; with some phenomenology, as philosophers call it, some close and detailed descriptive examination of our ethical experience. We hear a lot in philosophy about questions like “What is it like to be a bat?”, and such questions intrigue me too. But what about asking ourselves “What is it like to be a human being?”?

Author Bio

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