Joshua Greene - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Mar 14
  

  mbjorn
  • moral judgment depends on  the functional integration of multiple cognitive systems
  • research indicates that there is no dedicated  “moral sense” or “moral faculty.”
  • coordinated interaction of  various domain-general cognitive systems
  • lessons of this new science to  old philosophical questions and current social problems
  • "sentimentalist" philosophers such as David  Hume and Adam Smith argued that emotions are the primary basis for  moral judgment
  • Rationalist philosophers                                       such as Plato and Kant conceived of mature moral judgment as a  rational enterprise
  • characteristically  deontological moral judgments (judgments associated with concerns  for "rights" and "duties")
  • utilitarian or  consequentialist moral judgments (judgments aimed at promoting the  "greater good")
  • automatic emotional  responses
  • driven by more controlled cognitive  processes
  • strong, negative emotional  response
  • If you make the utilitarian judgment sufficiently  attractive, you can elicit a prolonged competition between these  two systems.
  • while at the same time eliciting a  comparably compelling utilitarian response
  • dilemma is difficult because
  • elicits a strong negative emotional response
  • dual-process theory
  • anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region associated with  "response conflict."
  • utilitarian judgments
  • anterior regions of the dorsolateral prefrontal  cortex

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• 06 Feb 14
  

  Tina Miller, MA

  books moral-dev

• 07 Jan 14
  

  Rahul Patni
  • how moral judgments are  shaped by automatic processes (such as emotional “gut reactions”)  and controlled cognitive processes
  • but rather to understand  how moral judgments arise from the coordinated interaction of  various domain-general cognitive systems.
  • emotion and reason both play  critical roles in moral judgment
  • "dual-process"  theory of moral judgment according to which characteristically  deontological moral judgments (judgments associated with concerns  for "rights" and "duties") are driven by automatic emotional  responses, while characteristically utilitarian or  consequentialist moral judgments

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• 06 Feb 13
  

  sandy honeybee

  joshua greene neuroscience moral cognition research naturenurture

• 21 Nov 12
  

  gracemosley

  neuro ethics trolley problem

• 11 Oct 12
  

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• 03 Aug 12
  

  Pablo Stafforini

  new-import-delicious people joshua_d_greene neuroscience moral_cognition

• 22 Mar 12
  

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  determinism freewill moral

• 24 Sep 11
  

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• 14 Oct 10
  

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