Organon F

Volume 32, November 2025, Issue 4, Pages 486–490

ISSN 2585-7150 (online)

The article examines the necessity of moral knowledge for moral worth, focusing on Neil Sinhababu’s (2024) arguments. Sliwa (2015) and Cunningham (2021) contend that moral worth requires moral knowledge. In contrast, Sinhababu (2024) challenges this view using Gettier cases, arguing that justified true belief, even without knowledge, can still confer moral worth. This article argues that Sinhababu’s Gettier cases do not convincingly demonstrate that moral knowledge is unnecessary for moral worth.

Moral knowledge; moral testimony; Gettier case; moral worth.

Author

Yuanfan Huang

Affiliation

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Address

School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD. Minhang District, Shanghai, China

E-mail

huangyuanfan@sjtu.edu.cn 

Received

11 May 2025

Accepted

8 June 2025

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Huang, Y. (2025). Is Moral Knowledge Necessary for Moral Worth? Organon F, 32(4), 486–490. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32405

Chicago

Huang, Yuanfan. 2025. "Is Moral Knowledge Necessary for Moral Worth?" Organon F 32 (4): 486–490. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32405

Harvard

Huang, Y. (2025). Is Moral Knowledge Necessary for Moral Worth? Organon F, 32(4), pp. 486–490. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32405

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