Join me today for an interview with Dr. Neil O’Hara. Dr. O’Hara earned his Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Hertfordshire supervised by Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, John Lippitt, and Chon Tejedor. I came to know his work through his 2018 monograph Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality (Palgrave-Macmillan). Neil’s area of specialization is metaethics. He’s also a novelist, poet, and is the administration manager for the Luton-based educational charity Level Trust. (CEO Jane Malcolm. To learn more about this worthy cause, visit https://www.leveltrust.org/ . Today, Neil and I discuss his Wittgensteinian account of “primary recognition,” universal and local moral certainties, the Danish philosopher and theologian Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905-1981), and life in general as aspiring philosophers just trying to be happy and do right by others during a global pandemic.
If you’ve never heard of Løgstrup, he’s best known (mostly in Scandinavia) for his Den Etiske Fordring (The Ethical Demand).

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