intuitionism

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Moral decisions are made intuitively, our morality systems were not designed for complex worlds.

Haidt

People privilege anecdotes over evidence

thinking fast and slow
- System 1 thinking is rapid and unconscious, it has to do with rapid desires, judgements, and emotions. This is intuitionist moral philosophy. System 2 thinking is slower. Read up on this more, will ya.
moral foundations theory
- People act intuitively about morality. The opposite of rationalism
moral decisions vs ethical reflection
- Churchill discusses a separation between “morals”, a decision made using intuitionism, vs “#ethics”, a system used to reflect on those beliefs.
intuitionism in games
- intuitionism
ethics involves the juxtaposition between intuition and reason
- Ethics is an attempt to reconcile our moral intuitions with our moral reasoning
Video Games for Prosocial Learning-Koo
- A bit of talk on intuitionism and how that’s not necessarily all of morality and moral learning.
- highlight the moral dimension of system impacting choices. See intuitionism
Spec Ops, The Line
- The white phosphorus scene touches with something I just read about intuitionism, where people snap make that decision, thinking it’s what they need to do to progress, but then are shown the consequences of said intuitionism
- The white phosphorus scene touches with something I just read about intuitionism, where people snap make that decision, thinking it’s what they need to do to progress, but then are shown the consequences of said intuitionism
Challenges to Moral Engagement-Svelch
- Further discusses intuitionism as the decider between the trolley problem and fat man problem