moral competency

This note last modified September 1, 2024

It seems like a uniquely difficult problem to measure moral competency, as it inherently reflects the biases of the creator of the metric. Kohlberg was a Kantian, does that mean that he would believe a Utilitarian was less morally competent?

social development
- Kohlberg argues that social development is equivalent to moral development
moral sensitivity
- Predictive Scenarios to Explore Ethical Dilemmas talks about “ethical cueing”, that a large part of moral competency is understanding the cues that indicate that you are in a moral scenario in the first place.
moral person
- To define moral competency we have to define “the moral person”
moral performance is contextual
- the Milgram experiment show that moral transgressions occur in ways not entirely explained by standard views of moral competency. Perhaps agents use moral competency to identify when to self-regulate their behavior, but if there’s doubt, agents can be externally influenced to act immorally.
factors that affect development of moral competency
- Moral And Character Education-Berkowitz argues that parenting, cognitive ability, experiences, and societal context allow a person to develop moral competency
Video Games and Moral Pedagogy-Staines
- moral competency & moral reasoning
Papers Please
- You may want to bend the rules of your job to do “the right thing”, creating friction between different levels of moral competency
Neo-Kohlbergianism
- “Where Kohlberg saw the capacity to make rational moral judgements as the basis of moral competency, Neo-Kohlbergians contend that it is merely part of a much larger and complex cognitive apparatus”.
Ethical Thinking amoung Young Gamers
- Looks at the transient community of WoW and creates own metrics of moral competency