March 21, 2008

Utilitarianism and the Brain
By Guy Kahane

Everybody’s heard about Joshua Greene’s fMRI studies of moral judgement. Many have also heard about the study by Koenigs, Young, Adolphs, Cushman, Tranel, Cushman, Hauser and Damasio of patients with prefrontal damage. In a communication I co-authored with Nick Shackel and which has just come out in Nature, we criticise the methodology used in these studies.

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Posted on March 21, 2008 at 10:49 pm in Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Guy Kahane's Posts, Neuroscience of Morality | 2 Comments

November 14, 2007

Analogies between Linguistics and Moral Theory
By Gilbert Harman

Erica Roedder and I are writing about possible analogies between linguistics and moral theory. One such analogy is between the development of generative grammar and the approach to moral theory by Frances Kamm, which has received considerable discussion in Ethics, Etc. An early draft of our (highly speculative) paper is available online at http://www.princeton.edu/~harman/Papers/Moral%20Grammar%20Draft.pdf and Erica and I will be extremely grateful for any comments and suggestions.

Gil Harman

Posted on November 14, 2007 at 1:11 am in Moral Epistemology, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Kamm Reading Group, Gilbert Harman's Posts | 7 Comments