The Trolley Problem: Has the Obsession with Sacrificial Dilemmas Derailed Moral Psychology?
Prof David Pizarro (Psychology, Cornell) Dr Guy Kahane (Philosophy, Oxford) Monday 1st of June, 2pm-3:30pm Room SG1 (Ground Floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP Tea and biscuits will be served after the event at the Atrium. The speakers are happy to meet and exchange ideas with students and researchers. If you'd like to meet them individually, please sign up here: Prof. David Pizarro: http://doodle.com/vpfh3vxxkbzkxb3r Dr. Guy Kahane: http://doodle.com/xgxbhvf6aeva7h3q About the speakers: Prof. David Pizarro (Department of Psychology, Cornell University) Prof Pizarro is a leading researcher in the area of moral judgments, intuitions, and biases. He also studies the influence of emotion on decision-making, with a particular focus on how specific emotions (e.g., disgust, fear) impact information processing and interpersonal judgments. Dr. Guy Kahane (Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford) Dr. Kahane is the Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is a Research Fellow at Pembroke College and a recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Award. His research areas include practical ethics, neuroethics, meta-ethics, and value theory. This event is part of a series of biweekly interdisciplinary debates in moral psychology (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/moral-psychology). Sign up to be notified of future events here: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/50108, and subscribe to our mailing list here: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-moralpsy-public. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
