Stanford Lectures 4: Justice, Morality, Free Will

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2024-2025

Tematika

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.

Előadások

• 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

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

Saját oktatási anyag

Handouts

Jegyzet

Ajánlott irodalom

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.

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

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Félévközi ellenőrzések

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

Távolmaradás pótlásának lehetőségei

It is not possible to do make-up classes

Vizsgakérdések

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Vizsgáztatók

Gyakorlatok, szemináriumok oktatói