Stanford Lectures 4: Justice, Morality, Free Will

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2024-2025

Thematik

This course first deals with the evolution of morality. We discuss basic moral questions and the biological background of Right and Wrong. Connected to this, and the next part of the course, is the concept of justice and the associated problems of the criminal justice system. It may be surprising, but these have evolutionary origins as well. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford is currently (January 2023) working on his new book with the title „Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will”. In the last part of the course, we handle the questions emerging from the argument of the absence of Free Will.

Vorlesungen

• 1. General introduction. - Mátics Róbert
• 2. Phineas Gage and the McNaughton Rule: the Difference between Right and Wrong - Mátics Róbert
• 3. The Moral Side of Murder - Mátics Róbert
• 4. The Moral Side of Murder II. - Mátics Róbert
• 5. The Runaway Trolley Dilemma - Mátics Róbert
• 6. The Runaway Trolley Dilemma II. - Mátics Róbert
• 7. Legal Implications: Morality vs Biology - Mátics Róbert
• 8. Age-dependent Morale? - Mátics Róbert
• 9. Doing the Harder Thing Which is the Right Thing - Mátics Róbert
• 10. Descartes’ Error - Mátics Róbert
• 11. Love and Hate - Mátics Róbert
• 12. Development of Moral Standards - Mátics Róbert
• 13. Ability vs. Effort - Mátics Róbert
• 14. What’s needed for Empathy? - Mátics Róbert
• 15. Theory of Mind - Mátics Róbert
• 16. Moral Development in Humans: Piaget - Mátics Róbert
• 17. Moral Development in Humans: Kohlberg - Mátics Róbert
• 18. Do violent video games increase aggression? - Mátics Róbert
• 19. Effects of society on morale (isolation, peer groups, parents) - Mátics Róbert
• 20. Roe vs. Wade and the crime rate in the USA - Mátics Róbert
• 21. Explicit vs. implicit learning - Mátics Róbert
• 22. Moral Reasoning vs. Moral Behaviour - Mátics Róbert
• 23. The attributes of heroes - Mátics Róbert
• 24. Summary, Questions, Feedback. - Mátics Róbert

Praktika

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

Handouts

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

Robert M. Sapolsky: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Penguin Press, May 2, 2017.

Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Viking Press, February 13, 2018.

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

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Semesteranforderungen

Essay (1 or 2 A4 pages) sent per e-mail to bobmatix@gmail.com within 2 weeks after the course

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

It is not possible to do make-up classes

Prüfungsfragen

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Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen