rules amended, inferences rejected
Psychopaths and Rational Morality : The Frontal Cortex
psychopaths and various trolley experiments are giving us new insight into the emotional mess of moral decision-making.
Does moral action depend on reasoning?
A Templeton Conversation: This is the sixth in a series of conversations among leading scientists, scholars, and public figures about the "Big Questions."
Rudy Garns
philosopher, educator, citizen
"...rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is ammended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend. The process of justification is the delicate one of making mutual adjustments between rules and accepted inferences...." (Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast)
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