Values and Language - Thursday, March 6
Please review the question list and think about the issues raised by the Lauren Guzaskis video. Make notes and have opinions on which if any of the questions on the list apply to Lauren's situation. Write a sentence or short paragraph explaining your basic opinion about the moral dimensions of this situation. If you think it has no moral dimension, say why. If you think that someone has a responsibility to make this kind of situation better, explain who and why. We'll use that as the opening exercise.
There's an ethics colloquium on Wednesday night at 7 to which you are warmly invited. Cookies will be served. I will give extra credit for attending. Here are the details:
Announcing the Green Colloquium Series
“Move Electrons, Not Mammals”
On Wednesday, March 5, at 7 pm, in Old Main 06, a group will gather to watch a talk by cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who received the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics. The title of the talk: “Explorations of the Mind: Well Being.” Kahneman has demonstrated that there are important differences between people’s reports about the quality of an experience as it is happening and their reports looking back. (He also thinks about the unreliability of people’s views about what will be satisfying or unsatisfying.)
Ethics and political philosophy take human consequences seriously, asking “How will it affect people, if I do this action, if we change this rule, if we construct this new institution?” Kahneman shows that different plausible ways of measuring human happiness give radically different answers to such questions.
There will be cookies – and a doorprize.
(To preview the talk, search Google Video: well being, psychology.)