Peter Singer, Ethics, Morality, Human, Descriptive ethics, Virtue ethics
227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
0:04:11.4 MC: We use a lot of different methods in our research, ranging from asking people to read about hypothetical scenarios and make judgments about them, to experiments where people are making real decisions that have material consequences for themselves and other people, to ...
227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
0:04:11.4 MC: We use a lot of different methods in our research, ranging from asking people to read about hypothetical scenarios and make judgments about them, to experiments where people ...
We are sorry, we could not find the related article
If you are curious about 50 years from now and Future of life on Earth
Please click on:
Subscribe to 50 years from now - Future of life on Earth
Ethics
[31] Consequentialism[edit] Main article: Consequentialism See also: Ethical egoism Consequentialism refers to moral theories that hold the consequences of a particular action form the ...
225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
But I have a whole book trying to show that language presupposes a lot of social cognitive things, a lot of theory of mindy kind of things, a lot of cooperative, we share information with ...
Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians
This article discusses how utilitarians should go about applying their philosophy in the real world. It argues that utilitarians should cultivate a set of utilitarian virtues, including ...
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Thank you to Sam Atis, Robert Harling, Guive Assadi, Pranay Mittal, and Francis Priestland for comments on earlier drafts. The research for this post was supported by a grant from the FTX ...
What’s Wrong with Moral Deference?
What’s Wrong with Moral Deference? Presidential Address 63rdAnnual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2017 Jonathan Matheson, University of North Florida I want to begin by ...
What is rude?
Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch all matriculated at Oxford in the late 1930s. When most...
Consequentialism and Machine Ethics – Towards a Foundational Machine Ethic to Ensure the Ethical Conduct of Artificial Moral Agents
By Josiah Della Foresta (Philosophy, McGill University) This paper argues that Consequentialism represents a kind of ethical theory that is the most plausible to serve as a basis for a ...
Where Do Your Expectations of Yourself Come From?
What you expect from yourself is shaped by your temperament and your parents.
Other People's Mothers
In equating the ethical point of view with the universal point of view and the universal point of view with the idea of equality, Singer does not note that from ancient times many ...
The costs of being consequentialist: Social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence
Previous work has demonstrated that people are more likely to trust “deontological” agents who reject harming one person to save many others than “con…
Experimental Moral Philosophy
2.3 An Example: Intentionality and Responsibility Since Knobe’s seminal (2003) paper, experimental philosophers have investigated the complex patterns in people’s dispositions to make ...
We admire these do-gooders. We just don’t want to date them.
A neuroscientist’s studies show that altruism isn’t always attractive.
1. Academic psychology on consciousness.docx
Awareness, conscious awareness, feedforeward processing, recurrent processing, global neuronal workspace, phenomenal conscious, access conscious, focus of attention, working memory, ...
A rant on FTX, William MacAskill, and Utilitarianism
Philosophy goes through self-conscious, periodic bouts of historical forgetting.* These are moments when philosophical revolutionaries castigate the reading of books and the scholastic ...
