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Welcome
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Lecture 01
Introduction
Why Investigate Moral Psychology?
Administrative Hints
Moral Intuitions
Moral Intuitions and an Affect Heuristic
Moral Intuitions and Emotions: Evidence
Conclusion
Question Session 01
Lecture 02
Why Is the Affect Heuristic Significant?
Moral Intuitions and Emotions: Evaluating the Evidence
A Linguistic Analogy
Framing Effects and Mikhail’s Linguistic Analogy (optional)
Conclusion: Two Puzzles
Question Session 02
The Affect Heuristic and Risk: A Case Study
Lecture 03
Introduction to Lecture 3: Emotion and Reason in Moral Judgement
Moral Dumbfounding
Why Is Moral Dumbfounding Significant?
Reason and Atrocity: Hindriks’ Observation
Moral Disengagement: The Theory
Moral Disengagement: The Evidence
Moral Disengagement: Significance
Conclusion: Yet Another Puzzle
Question Session 03
Lecture 04
Introduction to Part II: Do Cultural Differences in Moral Psychology Explain Political Conflict on Climate Change?
Do Ethical Attitudes Shape Political Behaviours?
Moral Pluralism: Beyond Harm
Operationalising Moral Foundations Theory
Moral Foundations Theory: An Approach to Cultural Variation
Conclusion So Far
Question Session 04
Lecture 05
Liberals vs Conservatives
Moral Psychology Drives Environmental Concern
Framing Changes Ethical Attitudes
The Argument and Some Objections
The Puzzle of Moral Foundations Theory
Conclusion: Moral Psychology Works
Lecture 06
Introduction to Part III: Could discoveries in moral psychology undermine, or support, ethical principles or theories?
Foot and Trolley Cases: Kant Was Wrong
Singer vs Kamm on Distance
Thomson’s Other Method of Trolley Cases
Framing Effects: Emotion and Order of Presentation
Conclusion
Preview: Ethics vs Physics
Lecture 07
Linking Ethics to Moral Psychology: Dual-Process Theories
Debunking Arguments
Greene contra Ethics (Railgun Remix)
A Dual Process Theory of Ethical Judgement
Cognitive Miracles: When Are Fast Processes Unreliable?
What Is the Role of Fast Processes In Not-Justified-Inferentially Judgements?
Which Moral Scenarios Are Unfamiliar?
Conclusion: Guesses Aren’t Evidence
Lecture 08
Dual Process Theories: Objections, Evidence and Significance
Evidence for Dual Process Theories
Conflicting Evidence against a Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgement
Against Reflective Equilibrium
Conclusion: No End to Our Troubles
Appendix: Dual Process Theory and Auxiliary Hypotheses
Lecture 09
How to Ethics?
Moral Reframing and Process Dissociation
Moral Foundations Theory Reprise
Does emotion influence moral judgment or merely motivate morally relevant action? (Reprise)
Theoretical Objections to Greene’s Argument
Outro: Ethical Unknowns
Index of Puzzles
Appendix Ethical Implications of the Dual Process Theory
Appendix: Origins of Moral Psychology
Seminar Tasks
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Seminar 3
Seminar 4
Seminar 5
Seminar 6
Seminar 7
Seminar 8
Short Essay Questions
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Long Essay Questions
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Question 7
Question 8
Glossary
Lecture 01
Administrative Hints
Administrative Hints
Notes