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17 Cards in this Set
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What is Kant's goal?
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Establish a supreme principle of morality
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What is Ridley's goal?
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how do people react in games
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What is derived from categorical imperatives?
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Perfect and imperfect duties
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What are universal laws of nature?
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What naturally follows in life or in society
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What are categorical imperatives?
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Act on maxims which can at the same time have for their objects themselves as universal laws of nature
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What is a perfect duty and an example?
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Actions are so constituted that their maxims can't be thought of as a universal law of nature without contradiction
*Refraining from suicide (perfect duty towards self) |
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What is an imperfect duty and an example?
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the maxim-made-universal law is not self contradicting but is still something that no one could possibly will to be a universal law of nature
*Contribute to the happiness of others (imperfect duty for others except not everyone would contribute) |
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Who is Lawrence Blum and what did he discover?
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He had the core cases for moral psychology.
Children showed altruistic behaivor |
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What are the 2 theories Nichols uses?
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Contagion theory - empathy occurs when one person's distress causes one's own distress
Mindreading- ability to recognize existence and type of mental state had by others *attributions- recognize existence and nature of other person's mental state *perspectival- imagine being in the other person's place |
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What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?
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Sympathy- feeling bad for someone because you observe their distress
Empathy- putting yourself in others' shoes (adopting their beliefs) |
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What are the 2 kinds of mind reading and who favors which?
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Arributional
Perspectival |
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What are the 2 examples in Mind Reading and what do they conclude?
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Psychopaths-
Autistic- |
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When does tit-for-tat work? When doesn't it work?
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TFT works when used repeatedly
It doesn't work when used once, if game is played only one time it is always better to defect |
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What is tit-for-tat and an example
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*Do what the other guy did last time
*Vampire bats, stag |
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Why is a theory considered "nice"
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Because it starts off cooperating
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What are some of the different game theories presented by Ridley?
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Generous TFT - overlooks single defections 1/3 times
Pavlov - starts cooperativing and will continue if other does as well. If Pavlov loses, turns to defection, if comes across a cooperator, it keeps on defecting |
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What are the 2 natural laws?
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1. Seek peace and follow it (its hard to live in chaos)
2. Give up right to all things so others can have their own share (for everyone's benefit) |
