Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Etyki UJ (INCET) zaprasza na kolejne otwarte seminarium badawcze! Referat zatytułowany "Ascribing moral responsibility and decision-making capacity to agents with various emotional/intellectual disturbances” wygłosi Dariusz Miękisz. Spotkanie odbędzie się w czwartek 12 października o godzinie 17:30 w sali 25 przy ul. Grodzkiej 52 oraz za pośrednictwem platformy MS Teams.

Abstrakt

Moral responsibility (MR) and decision-making capacity (DMC) are mirror concepts that depend on agent’s competence for making conscious, deliberate choices. A recent study showed that framing addiction as a neurological disorder rather than a psychological one mitigates responsibility of the addicted (Rise&Halkjelsvik, 2019). Another study showed that possessing adequate competence but failing to exercise it due to impulsive acting still counts as a sound decision for the folk intuition (Demaree-Cotton&Sommers, 2021). 
In this talk I want to present a design of a study that compares how agent’s intellectual and emotional properties influence our ascriptions of MR/DMC to this agent. I will also explore the idea that ascribing MR/DMC is a secondary cognitive process that bears some resemblance to the primary cognitive process of ordinary moral judgment. 

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