CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Moral Reasoning, Information Processing, Individualism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Myrto Mylopoulos

Document Summary

Code of conduct put forward by a society/group, or accepted by an individual for their own behaviour (gert. Carleton codes of conduct (academic integrity, how to treat other students) Cognitive science can study morality just as it can study perception, attention, emotion, consciousness, etc. Morality as a form of cognition: input (situation, information processing (moral reasoning, output (moral judgment, an explicit or implicit evaluation of the morality of a situation, action, or person. Rationalist view: moral judgments are the result of abstract reasoning and reflection: children figure out morality for themselves, rather than through experience, morality develops in stages. We do not come equipped with innate moral rules, but with an innate capacity to develop into moral agents: develop as a moral person through various stages and through a process of reasoning. Morality is developmental: people develop morality in stages, progressing to more and more advanced stages. Presented participants (all boys and young men) with moral dilemmas.