PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Autism Spectrum, Moral Agency, Kantian Ethics
9 May 2016
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If the consequences would be catastrophic then maybe you shouldn"t do it. Moral agency is an individual"s ability to make moral judgments based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions. A moral agent is a being who is capable of acting with reference to what is right and wrong: blame, praise, punishment and prize. Moral of the story: the two groups are very different from each other. Autism spectrum disorder (a. s. d. ) is characterized by a lack of cognitive empathy and an inability to take others perspectives: perspective taking: trying to take on another"s point of view and diminish one"s own. The brain of a child with autism has an abnormal corpus callosum, amygdala and cerebellum. Temporal parietal junction (tpj: the part of the brain responsible for mirroring other people. Home of the theory of the mind: behaviorally. Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests and.
