Phil/Psych 447
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Seminar in Cognitive Science
Week 9: Ethical brains
Discussion Questions
- What are moral intuitions? Can they be trusted?
- What are the sources of agreement and disagreement on ethical issues?
- Do mirror neurons help us to understand empathy?
- Why should people be moral?
- What ethical theory (relativism, consequentialism, etc.) is most compatible
with neuroscience?
- Do needs provide the basis for a theory of human rights?
- Is right and wrong objective?
- If decisions are brain processes, can people be held responsible for them?
Ethics in action and
explanation
Computational Epistemology
Laboratory.
Paul
Thagard
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