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The Epistemic Duties of Philosophers: An Addendum
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 31, Number 4, December 2021
- pp. 447-451
- 10.1353/ken.2021.0023
- Article
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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.