PHIL215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Business Ethics, Confirmation Bias, Asteroid Family
2 Feb 2017
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Phil 215 (arbus 202) lecture 1 introduction to ethics & morality. Textbook is 2010 edition of business ethics canadian edition by damian grace and stephen cohen. Will need to bring i-clicker, participation in this class is worth 15%. We all have the potential to be bad people - to listen to the devil on our shoulder instead of the angel. Confirmation bias - focusing on the evidence that proves you"re right, and ignoring the evidence that suggests we are wrong (you see what you want to see). There can be a number of influences on formation of ethical worldview: parents, media, religion, Everyone thinks they are ethical and they are the exception - they do not have faith in others ethics though, and could see why others would have to take an ethics course. They do not think they would have to take an ethics course, because they have much more faith in their own ability to make ethical decisions.
