Does the Existence of God Help Explain Moral Knowledge? - Dr. David Baggett

Dr. David Baggett, the director of the Center for the Foundations of Ethics at Houston Christian University (formerly Houston Baptist University), delivered this lecture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on March 29, 2022. In this lecture, Dr. Baggett discusses the substance of moral knowledge and offers several possibilities for its justification. He then reviews evolutionary debunking arguments that have been put forward as defeaters for moral knowledge, after which he defends a theistic explanation for the existence of moral knowledge.

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Contents
0:00 General Structure of Moral Arguments
3:05 What Propositional Knowledge Is
6:01 What Moral Knowledge Is
9:22 Justifications for Moral Knowledge
11:23 Strategy 1: Deliberative Indispensability
15:19 Strategy 2: Proper Basicality
18:41 Strategy 3: Phenomenal Conservatism
21:19 Types of Defeaters
23:06 Evolutionary Debunking Objection
26:16 Naturalistic Origins Thesis
27:54 Evolutionary Debunking Examples
34:45 Naturalism Is Assumed
40:41 Can Theism Answer Debunking?
42:29 Variants of Debunking
45:07 Rejecting the Naturalistic Origins Thesis
47:17 Theism as a Solution
53:10 Conclusion: A Case for Theism