CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Consequentialism, Flag Of Canada, Trolley Problem

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Myrto Mylopoulos

Document Summary

Code of conduct put forward by a society/group, or accepted by an individual for their own behaviour: ethical theories attempt to articulate in a principled way what this code of conduct. Cognitive science can study morality just as it can study perception, attention, emotion, etc. Information processing (moral reasoning: output (moral judgment) An explicit or implicit evaluation of the morality of a situation, action, or person. Rationalist view: moral judgments are the result of abstract reasoning and reflection: children figure out morality for themselves, rather than through experience, morality develops in stages. We do not come equipped with innate moral rules, but with an innate capacity to develop into moral agents. Children not born with innate understanding of conservation laws. They don"t understand that quantities don"t change when transferring them. Morality is developmental: people develop morality in stages, progressing to more and more advanced stages. Presented participants (all boys and young men) with moral dilemmas.