Experimental Philosophy Intent
Experimental Philosophy is an extension of the psychological and neurological studies being done by Joshua Greene. It shows how the wording and order of a scenario, can lead to very different ways of thinking. If seems that the art of harming is intentional, and the act of helping is unintentional to the majority of people.(1)
Just as Greene showed biologically that an emotional moral response can be different even if the outcome is the same, if done by the reason center He conducted brain scans showing that different areas of the brain are used for the same problem, depending on the emotion and scenario of the problem.
Experimental Philosophers have began to do empirical studies on subjects like intent, and obligation. They have found just as Greene did, that certain key elements of an unconscious set of morals are in all humans, and that critical reason may be pushed aside depending on the scenario of the encounter, allowing an emotional response part of the brain to react without reason.
Imagine a President of a fictional company, who does not care about the environment and harms it, he will usually receive judgment that his non-action is an intent to harm the environment. In the case of this President not caring about the environment, but helping it anyway to make money, he will usually receive no credit for helping the environment, even though his actions did. The math is the same except for one variable, but both answers come out negative.
Experimental Philosophy is the cognitive empirical approach which addresses the same problems that Dr. Greene showed us from both biological and psychological paradigms, and it seems, both parties have found very similar results. It’s not just what we think, but how we feel about what we think at some primitive level, which determines our determination and reactions to choices, and this may produce very different outcomes.
REFERNCES:
(Experimental Philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHoyMfHudaE)
Experimental Philosophy is an extension of the psychological and neurological studies being done by Joshua Greene. It shows how the wording and order of a scenario, can lead to very different ways of thinking. If seems that the art of harming is intentional, and the act of helping is unintentional to the majority of people.(1)
Just as Greene showed biologically that an emotional moral response can be different even if the outcome is the same, if done by the reason center He conducted brain scans showing that different areas of the brain are used for the same problem, depending on the emotion and scenario of the problem.
Experimental Philosophers have began to do empirical studies on subjects like intent, and obligation. They have found just as Greene did, that certain key elements of an unconscious set of morals are in all humans, and that critical reason may be pushed aside depending on the scenario of the encounter, allowing an emotional response part of the brain to react without reason.
Imagine a President of a fictional company, who does not care about the environment and harms it, he will usually receive judgment that his non-action is an intent to harm the environment. In the case of this President not caring about the environment, but helping it anyway to make money, he will usually receive no credit for helping the environment, even though his actions did. The math is the same except for one variable, but both answers come out negative.
Experimental Philosophy is the cognitive empirical approach which addresses the same problems that Dr. Greene showed us from both biological and psychological paradigms, and it seems, both parties have found very similar results. It’s not just what we think, but how we feel about what we think at some primitive level, which determines our determination and reactions to choices, and this may produce very different outcomes.
REFERNCES:
(Experimental Philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHoyMfHudaE)
- Experimental Philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHoyMfHudaE
- philosophy bites: http://philosophybites.com/2010/08/joshua-knobe-on-experimental-philosophy.html