PHIL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Load, Representativeness Heuristic, Amos Tversky
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Lecture 4 (8th march): the moral psychology of the doing / allowing distinction. On psychology, neuroscience, ethics, and law , online at http://www. radcliffe. harvard. edu/exploratory-seminars/public- policy-and- brain- supplemental-resources accessed 7th march 2017. Barry, christian, lindauer, matthew, overland, gerhard, 2014, doing, allowing, and. Enabling harm: an empirical investigation, in j. knobe, t. lombrozo, s. nichols (eds. ) Oxford studies in experimental philosophy, oxford: oxford university press. What does the experimental evidence actually say about the stability of. Online at http://philosophycommons. typepad. com/xphi/2016/08/moral-intuitions-are- shockingly- unaffected-by-manipulations-of-emotion. html accessed 25th february 2017. On the last couple of pages of her paper that we looked at last monday, judith jarvis thomson asks why it is that so many of the people who are asked to consider the "bystander"s two. Options" version of the trolley problem think that obviously the bystander should pull the switch to redirect the train to kill the one person.