SOC SCI H1G Lecture 9: Honors Naturalized Epistemology: Lecture 9
21 Jan 2019
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Typically, when human beings are called on to introspect questions like how their beliefs were formed/ what effects their beliefs, they generally take themselves to be introspecting, recovering sequences of thought they had and then reporting them. Special kind of access to own mental states that other people don"t have. Whenever you do that , although we think of ourselves as giving first person reports, we are actually theorizing about ourselves. They"re not reporting their own case; they are theorizing about their own thoughts and behaviors just like everyone else. We can"t just be introspecting/ reporting; we are theorizing, even though we don"t think this is what we"re doing. Gives people conflicting moral intuitions about the same problem. Footbridge vs. trolley (consequentialist vs. deontological intuitions) Sum up positive vs. negative consequences of something. People have rights that can"t be violated no matter how many people need to be saved.
