IMO science can explain the processes of making moral decisions but morality itself it cannot, at least in its current form
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Exactly. If you are researching the best way to save lives, you are researching how to enact a moral principle based on your own moral code. That is: saving lives is worth doing.
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Science can tell you so much about how to do it but it cannot be used to back up why.
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Sanjay Srivastava
Here's a depressing example from my TL. Science cannot tell us (who) to kill or not kill. It's the moral code (and law) that needs to be changed, certainly not more empirical data gathered.https://twitter.com/hardsci/status/956597828616298496 …
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Sanjay Srivastava @hardsciMaking "ethnic adjustments" to IQ scores to justify executing people of color is layering a horror on a horror on a horror. But rebutting unscientific racism with unscientific anti-racism isn't going to cut it https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-iq-tests-are-perverted-to-justify-the-death-penalty …1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Holly shit! This is really depressing, we are but a depraved race/species, in that order!
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I could not finish reading it. I don’t know know where to start ... oh wait, I do know: get rid of the death penalty. Seems like a good place to start.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest and
Yes, indeed! Get rid of of the death penalty right now!
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
Following with the topic of morality have any of you seen this? Would it fall under the umbrella of Scientism? http://www.mpmlab.org/TDM%20PSPR.pdf
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This looks very interesting, thanks! I’m looking for more formal computational approaches to (the cognition of) morality.
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@chrismbrand might know some more!
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
There's actually a pretty new paper on the topic by Kim et al on Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04346 - John Mikhail, Molly Crockett, Michael & Susan Anderson and Luís Pereira have all done relevant work, as well.
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Replying to @chrismbrand @o_guest and
A bit more loosely connected but there's also the recent Oxford Utilitarianism Scale; http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-57422-001 …
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