The epistemic duties of philosophers

An addendum

authored by

Philippe Carl van Baßhuysen, Lucie Alexandra White

Abstract

In “Were Lockdowns Justified? A Return to the Facts and Evidence”, we argue that Eric Winsberg, Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant fail to make their case that initial COVID-19 lockdowns were unjustified, due to the fact their argument rests on erroneous factual claims. As is made clear by a response in this volume, the authors mistakenly take us to have been defending the imposition of lockdowns. Here, we clarify the aims of our original paper, and emphasise the importance of getting the facts right when making philosophical arguments in such a contentious domain.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Philosophy

Type

Article

Journal

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Volume

31

Pages

447-451

No. of pages

5

ISSN

1054-6863

Publication date

2021

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

Electronic version(s)

https://philpapers.org/rec/VANTED-7 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2021.0023 (Access: Closed)