PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Trolley Problem, Moral Reasoning, Radium
6 Dec 2015
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Recent contributions of social psychology and neuroscience to understanding moral judgment: not just a matter of thinking abstractly, but also gut feelings involved in moral reasoning. More relevant what processes occur instead of actual: philosophy/ethics, psychology outcome. Not so interested in the particular decisions people reached. In europe, a woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of radium that a pharmacist in the same town had recently discovered. The pharmacist was charging , ten times what it cost him to make. The sick woman"s husband, heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about half of what it cost. He told the pharmacist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper and let him pay him later. The husband got desperate and broke into the man"s store to steal the drug for his wife.
