Joint CAVE/MACCS/Philosophy seminar

Tuesday 26th July

4.00-5.30pm

C5C498

Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics Duke University.
Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Mind Research Network.
MQRCAVE Distinguished Visitor


Title: Do Psychopaths Make Moral Judgments?

Abstract:
Psychopaths are less than 1% of the population but commit
over 30% of the violent crime in most modern societies. Some experts
claim that psychopaths make moral judgments but do not care about
morality. Others argue that psychopaths do not really make moral
judgments but only pretend to do so. I will present recent data as
well as experimental plans to address this dispute. These results can
be important for treatment, prediction, and punishment policies as
well as philosophical debates about the nature and basis of moral
judgment.

-- 
Jeanette Kennett
Professor of Moral Psychology
Cognitive Science CORE
Department of Philosophy
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
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