ENGIN-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Executive Functions, John Stuart Mill, Rights
16 Dec 2020
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Students presented with moral problems were asked what they would do as the engineer playing different roles in each scenario: Mind the gaps : an empirical approach to engineering ethics, 1997-2001. 294 practicing engineers surveyed on ethical issues in engineering over a 5-year period. Gerts" rules require you to treat others impartially: only in regard to violating the moral rules. Prof joshua greene, department of psychology, harvard university. Subjects responded to different moral dilemmas while undergoing brain scanning using fmri. Results: different brain activity in response to personal and impersonal moral dilemmas. Capacities in moral thinking emerged at different stages of human evolution. Involves distinct parts of the brain (regions associated with emotion and regions associated with abstract reasoning and cognitive control. Human moral thinking is a complex interplay between (at least) two distinct types of processes. A number of ethical theories have evolved over time: None is universally true or clearly superior.
