Professor Richard Pettigrew (Bristol): 'From a Point of View'
The Faculty is delighted to welcome Professor Richard Pettigrew as the John Locke lecturer of 2025. Richard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
Lecture 5: 'Forming preferences and changing the moral facts: consent, coercion, and shaping values'
In the final two lectures, I turn from practical rationality to moral philosophy. The way in which our point of view is formed—and, in particular, the desires, wants, and values we have—is an important part of what determines whether, when we give consent on the basis of that point of view, it is able to change the moral facts in the way we normally expect consent to change them. I explore in some detail a range of ways in which our desires and values might be formed, and separate out the ways that give rise to values on which effective consent can be based from those that produce values on which it cannot.
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