Congratulations to FSPB contributor Jen Zamzow (Arizona) on the publication of her article, “Variations in Ethical Intuitions,” in Philosophical Issues! Here is the abstract:
Philosophical theorizing is often, either tacitly or explicitly, guided by intuitions about cases. However, recent empirical work has suggested that philosophically significant intuitions are variable and unstable in a number of [...]
Archive for the ‘Moral Psychology’ Category
“Variations in Ethical Intuitions”
Posted in Ethics, Moral Psychology on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Abstracts of Papers, Part 3
Posted in Action Theory, Conferences, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the last of the abstracts for the conference’s concurrent sessions. Abstracts of the plenary sessions will follow next week.
Call for Papers: “Spirituality in Action: Bringing Transpersonal Psychology to a World in Crisis”
Posted in Bioethics, Buddhism, CFPs, Christianity, Conferences, Ethics, General Interest, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Moral Psychology, News & Notes, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science on June 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I though this might be relevant for those working on Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and/or Moral Psychology. Best of Luck!
Freewill in the NYT
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… featuring FSU’s Al Mele, here.
(HT: The Garden of Forking Paths)
Moral Philosophy and Moral Behavior
Posted in Ethics, Moral Psychology on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Eric Schwitzgebel (UC-Riverside) and Josh Rust (Stetson) on their forthcoming paper in Mind, “The Moral Behavior of Ethicists: Peer Opinion.” The ‘peer opinion’ is not particularly flattering. Here is the abstract:
Knobe and Gopnik on Bloggingheads
Posted in Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joshua Knobe (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Alison Gopnik (UC-Berkeley) talk about how children think, about scientific thinking, and plenty more!
Note: Further commentary at the Splintered Mind.
The less they know, the less they know it?
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology, Teaching Philosophy on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via In Socrates’ Wake, I find this psychological gem:
[C]ognitive science offers some fairly sobering observations about our ability to judge ourselves and others…
[T]wo Cornell psychologists began with the following assumptions.
1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the [...]
Schroeder on Bloggingheads
Posted in Action Theory, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Psychology on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Schroeder (USC) discusses his book Slaves of the Passions.
Evil Smells like a Fart
Posted in Ethics, General Interest, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Psychology, Political Theory on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Eric Schwitzgebel I learn of what is quite possibly the best study ever, simply because it uses fart spray so awesomely. However, this sort of study is interesting for reasons beyond the creative use of fart spray.
As I’ve previously noted, explicit use of disgust-based arguments are often found in popular moral and legal debates, [...]
Situationism and virtue theory: Can we know if we are virtuous?
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, General Interest, Moral Psychology on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recent debates in ethics and moral psychology have attempted to call into question the foundations of virtue theory by using empirical research from the social sciences. The situationists claim that virtue theory is empirically inadequate because although people’s behavior can be consistent in similar situations, it is often not consistent across different types of situations. [...]
I Feel Your Pain
Posted in General Interest, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology on November 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, no, I don’t. But apparently some people do!
(HT: Philosophy Sucks!)
Are Utilitarians Brain-Damaged?
Posted in Ethics, Moral Psychology on November 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here is an interesting post on the relationship between “emotions and moral decision making.”
Maybe this explains why I could never quite get Utilitarianism…
~Q
UPDATE (11/08/2007): Moving to the front from earlier this week. The SUNY-Buffalo blog — the source of the post — has moved recently. We’ve updated the link. Check it out.
Addictions and Free Acts
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, General Interest, Interviews, Moral Psychology on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interview with Nora Volkow on NPR’s Fresh Air. Volkow is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and she has done very interesting work on drug abuse.
Will and Value
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, Moral Psychology, News & Notes on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… a conference in honor of Ramon M. Lemos at the University of Miami, Friday, April 27th. Details are available here.
- Rico Vitz
Two Questions about Moral Perfection
Posted in Action Theory, Ethics, Moral Psychology on April 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Prepping for class, I came across this interesting passage in Reid’s Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (IV.4):
God’s moral perfection doesn’t consist in his having no power to act badly. [...] God’s moral perfection consists in this: having an irresistible power to do everything, he exercises it only in doing what is [...]
More on Buddhism
Posted in Buddhism, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… here and here, compliments of our friends at R-P-E.
There are also interesting discussions for students both of Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas” as well as of brain damage and moral reasoning.
- Rico Vitz
