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Is superintelligence necessarily moral?
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Leonard Dung
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Analysis, Volume 84, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 730–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anae033
Published: 24 September 2024
.... Moreover, the current state of AI research provides additional reasons to think that a superintelligence could have bad goals. AI alignment existential risk superintelligence reward hacking orthogonality thesis moral motivation German ministry for education and research 033KI216 A significant...
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Inter-brain synchronization is weakened by the introduction of external punishment
Jianbiao Li and others
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2022, Pages 625–633, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab124
Published: 20 November 2021
... al., 2009 ; Krupka and Weber, 2013 ). As a result, the common factor that affects the decision-makings of proposers and responders is moral motivation that individuals avoid/pursue moral disgust/satisfaction. Moreover, both proposers and responders experience moral disgust/satisfaction when...
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Seeking the End: A Fresh Look at the Concept of Virtue
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Joseph A. Selling
Published: 01 March 2016
... Gerard J virtuous trapezium state of affairs continuum of virtues motivation narrative contraception sexual ethics virtuous person ambiguity Second Vatican Council human person moral event handbooks virtue virtue ethics theological ethics Kingdom of God behaviour ethical attitude moral...
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The neural underpinnings of moral values
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Jorge Moll and others
Published: 01 October 2015
... degeneration frontotemporal dementia functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI neurologic disease religious conversion attachment morality social brain moral values psychopathy antisocial behavior moral motivation moral emotions Watching friends and relatives disputing political, ideological...
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Analytical Descriptivism
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Frank Jackson
Published: 09 March 2000
... Blackburn Simon moral disagreement Carnap Cornell realism descriptivism folk theory Lewis Moore moral motivation open‐question argument Ramsey In the last chapter I argued that cognitivists in ethics should be descriptivists. The crucial argument was that the special nature of the famous...
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Moral Psychology as Accountability
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Brendan Dill and Stephen Darwall
Published: 06 November 2014
...On the basis of recent work in moral philosophy (Darwall 2006; 2013a; 2013b), this chapter hypothesizes that interpersonal accountability plays a foundational role in moral psychology. Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, it argues that the implicit aim of the central moral motives...
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Moral Fictionalism
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Richard Joyce
Published: 01 January 2016
... Brink D realism moral error theory moral fictionalism moral eliminativism noncognitivism moral motivation Were I not afraid of appearing too philosophical, I should remind my reader of that famous doctrine, supposed to be fully proved in modern times, “That tastes and colours, and all other...
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Social Structure and Individual Motivation
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Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Published: 22 September 2015
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Narrativity and Normativity
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Walter Wietzke
Published: 01 June 2015
... psychology teleology Anti Climacus Christianity despair sin Kosch Michelle psychotherapy Kierkegaard Narrative Anthony Rudd Moral motivation Selfhood In his afterword to Kierkegaard after MacIntyre , Alasdair MacIntyre identifies two types of aesthetes. First there is the type we...
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Oh, All the Wrongs I Could Have Performed! Or: Why Care about Morality, Robustly Realistically Understood
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David Enoch and Itamar Weinshtock Saadon
Published: 18 September 2023
... for explanation. This chapter tries to explain it. The discussion engages some topics familiar from objections to Robust realism—the why-be-moral challenge, the status of de-dicto moral motivation, and whether and why we should care about the moral properties, robustly realistically understood. 461 References...
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Self-Interest and Sociability
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Christian Maurer
Published: 16 December 2013
... for example by philosophers with an Augustinian and Epicurean background and by the associationists, yet rejected especially by thinkers inspired by Stoic ideas. In particular for these latter authors, who emphasize the disinterested aspects of moral motivation, the debates on the selfish hypothesis have...
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Published: 30 September 2014
... and metaethics, such as moral motivation, moral responsibility, and moral understanding. It shows the difficulty in conceptualising psychopathy and in using psychopathy as a test case for philosophical theories. empathy interdisciplinarity metaethics evil moral agency moral person normative normativity...
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On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse
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Wilfrid Sellars
Published: 24 August 2023
.... “On Knowing Better and Doing the Worse” Sellars beliefs Frankena William internalism knowledge externalism motivation Plato virtue knowledge and utilitarianism justice in Plato actions akrasia weakness of will moral motivation reasons for action motivational internalism reasons internalism 1...
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Virtue Ethics and the Demands of Social Morality
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Bradford Cokelet
Published: 04 December 2014
...This chapter argues that virtue ethicists must substantively augment their theories to account for the interpersonal moral demands that structure ordinary thought and practice. First, it shows that contemporary Aristotelian accounts of moral motivation are defective because they cannot account...
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Published: 01 July 2016
... moral motivation, that is, about which motives are morally praiseworthy. Consequentialists rightly doubted that the motive of an action can ever make a difference in its deontic status. However, Moore made one sort of error and Mill another set of errors in arguing that motives could not in principle...
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‘Duty and Virtue Are Moral Introversions’ On Løgstrup’s Critique of Morality
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Robert Stern
Published: 01 October 2015
... command necessitation autonomy categorical imperatives freedom transcendental idealism transcendental question Martin Wayne ought implies can Wolf Jakob K. E. Løgstrup Immanuel Kant duty moral motivation holy will Martin Luther A central feature of post-Kantian ethical thought, since...
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Desire and Aversion
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Timothy Schroeder
Published: 12 August 2004
... on the metaphysically inessential, but very important, features of human desires. Specifically discussed are the desire strength, consciousness and desire, acquiring and losing desires, fleeting desires, instrumental desires and direction of fit. Lastly, the controversy of the reward theory on moral motivation is shown...
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What’s Required for Motivation by Principle?
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Jeanette Kennett
Published: 22 January 2015
...Kant claimed both that “moral feeling is the capacity to be affected by a moral judgment” and that moral motivation is motivation by principle. What are the psychological mechanism(s) that could enable principles to motivate? This chapter develops in more detail a suggestion made elsewhere...
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Aristotle and Kant
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Rosalind Hursthouse
Published: 27 September 2001
...Virtue ethics is often praised, especially at the expense of Kant's deontology, for giving a better account of the moral significance of the emotions than the other ethical approaches, and, in particular, for giving a more attractive account than Kant of ‘moral motivation’. However, a careful...
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Published: 21 January 2021
... Dieter Obligation Necessity Moral consciousness Deduction Synthetic method path Necessitation Self deception moral sensibility moral feeling feeling of respect moral motivation intellectualism affectivism Nobody can or ever will comprehend how the understanding should have a motivating...
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