PHIL 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Psychology, Thought Experiment, Operant Conditioning Chamber
15 Jul 2020
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Case study: the use of thought experiments in ethics, ex: trolley problem, should you flip the switch so the trolley kills 1 person rather then 5. Is one life less important than 5: cases prompt intuitions/judgments, standard picture: In responding to a thought experiment, you discover an intuition. Intuitions are like data for moral theory: data is our judgements about something, once you have a bunch of data, you can offer a theory that explains them. It is possible to look at the psychological processes behind these instructions: framing effect: the way a question is framed in order to change a person"s intuitions. She believes that green is smuggling in a moral assumption and turns it into a philosophy belief that favours utilitarianism: shaw believes he is jumping to assumptions and that there may be other ways to explain his theory. Does (how would) science vindicate utilitarianism: requirements, 1.
