Liane Young on Mind and Morality

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 October 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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An important aspect of understanding morality is accurate description of what happens when people make moral judgments. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton talks to psychologist and philosopher Liane Young about her experiments designed to shed light on moral intentions.

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0:00.0	This is made in philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.
0:06.0	Philosophy bites is available at www
0:09.0	philosophy bites.com.
0:11.0	Philosophy bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.
0:15.0	Most people would judge a person more harshly for a bad action done intentionally than unintentionally.
0:21.0	Kicking somebody by mistake is not as bad we tend to think as kicking... intentionally. psychology based at Boston College and her particular interest is moral judgment.
0:35.2	Lian Young, welcome to Philosophy Bites. Thank you, hi. The topic we're going to focus on today
0:41.9	is mind and morality. Now seems quite an intuitive
0:46.8	starting point that any kind of thinking about morality involves recognizing other people
0:52.8	recognizing other people have minds.
0:54.6	Absolutely and I think this is something that we do quite easily and spontaneously
0:58.8	we naturally think about what's going on inside other people's heads
1:01.8	when we're interacting with them and importantly what's psychologist, how did you go about investigating moral issues about the mind?
1:15.0	Well one of the first things that we did was just think about our own intuitions
1:19.6	about the sorts of things that matter and one of the first things that comes to mind
1:24.8	is this factor of mind or intentions
1:27.6	or the difference between intentional acts
1:29.3	and accidental acts and so on.
1:31.5	And for me, this was an easy way into moral psychology because as all of us who study
1:37.5	morality know, morality is incredibly complicated and so for me I thought one way into
1:41.8	this complicated problem of morality is to study some factor
1:45.1	that might matter across the board.
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