‘I See Bad People’: Is the Sixth Sense a Moral Sense?
Public lecture on 6th November 2014 at the University of York.
The Reverend Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) has been largely lost to history, obscured by the fame of successors like David Hume, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant, but he was a remarkably rigorous and original philosopher. In this lecture, I defend Hutcheson’s claim that right and wrong are perceived in a similar manner to colour and tone, offering contemporary evidence in support of his moral sense theory.
Rafe McGregor BA MA