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Next Decoding Academia Paper
🕑 Added 2022-01-27 06:12:30 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
For those of you who might like to play along. This is the next paper (attached to the post) that we will cover on Decoding Academia (to be recorded next week).
It's a really interesting paper on Moral Psychology co-authored by former podcast guest David Pizarro.
Chris is a big fan and Matt is due to become one.
Worth a read if you like this kind of thing!
Comments
Sue Simmons
Yes, I do mean “get the episodes”. But, for instance, the Decoders say “This is the next paper (attached to the post) that we will cover on Decoding Academia (to be recorded next week).” That was Jan. 26, and I don’t see any episode of Decoding Academia related to this (or any Decoding Academia episode at all). I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
Paul Bowman
Amusingly the curse of DTG seems to be happening with this paper, given its link to real-time events happening with "He Who Shall Remain Nameless" over whether the act-centred morality of covid conspiracism is a worse crime than the person-centred morality of using racist language and therefore being A Bad Person. Very timely!
Jason Trock
I hope you mean how do you get the episodes! Become a patron at The most minimal level of 2 bucks a month.
Shannon
That seems incorrect, Epicureans seems like a consequentialist philosophy (quick googling tells me Mill agreed with this assessment). Plus there are some that argue that Kantian deontology is a type of virtue ethics.
Sue Simmons
Okay. How does one get “Decoding Academia”?
Paul Bowman
Consequentialist and deontological ethics are really very recent arrivals in the scheme of things. Even today, relatively stateless cultures like the more tribal Kurds, Pashtuns, Bedouins (or Irish Travellers for that matter) view ethics through the lens of virtue ethics and find deontological or consequentialist views strange. My pet theory is that the latter views have really only come to the fore in the age of the modern state, as they tend to assume to presence of the state as dominant social agent, so the deontological & consequentialist views really inform the "state-eye-view" questions of "how should social policy be assessed". People have been living with the necessity of judging whether the other chief/headman/etc can be trusted or not, for a lot longer
