Marathon Moral Reasoning Laboratory
9.93 · Brain and Cognitive Sciences · Undergraduate · January IAP 2007
Prof. John Mikhail, Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum, Prof. Rebecca Saxe
<p>This seminar focuses on the cognitive science of moral reasoning. Philosophers debate how we decide which moral actions are permissible. Is it permissible to take one human life in order to save others? We have powerful and surprisingly rich and subtle intuitions to such questions.</p> <p>In this class, you will learn how intuitions can be studied using formal analytical paradigms and behavioral experiments. Thursday evening, meet to learn about recent advances in theories of moral reasoning…
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