2025-01-09
29 分钟Sometimes, there is vagueness about whether it is morally permissible (or even in some situations required) to perform a certain act—moral vagueness. What is the source of moral vagueness? Ofra Magidor discusses this topic with Nigel Warburton. This episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast has been made in association with Vagueness & Ethics, a research project funded by the European Commission (grant agreement number 101028625 — H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) and led by Miguel Dos Santos at Uppsala University.
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The tricky issue of vagueness is well known in philosophy, but it's not normally discussed in the context of morality.
Ofvra Magidor of Oxford University says it applies here too.
This episode of Philosophy Bites is made in association with Vagueness and Ethics, a research project funded by the European Commission and based at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Ofra Magidor, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
Hi.
The topic we're going to talk about is epistemicism and moral vagueness.
Let's start with the vagueness.
Epistemicism isn't obvious either.
But what do you mean by vagueness in this context?
Okay, so let's take a word like tall.
So we know that someone who's 1 meters in height is definitely not tall.
And someone who's 2 meters in height is definitely tall.
But there are lots of heights in the middle.
Like, you know, what about someone who's 1 meter 85?
It's really hard to tell.
They don't seem to be clearly tall.