Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas.
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| Title: | Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas. |
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| Authors: | Heywood, Paolo, Reed, Adam |
| Source: | Social Analysis. 2023, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p45-57. 13p. |
| Subjects: | Ethical problems, Christianity & culture, Ethics, Anthropologists, Philosophy |
| Abstract: | This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualization and abstraction both within and beyond the realm of the moral. We highlight some of the criticisms anthropologists have made of the "thinness" of ethical thought experiments while also suggesting some ways in which philosophers might wish to defend them. We also point to a growing interest on the part of a range of anthropologists in formalized, stylized, and abbreviated modes of ethical reasoning, and emphasize the importance of attending to such forms of reasoning, even though they may conflict with our disciplinary preference for the "thick" and the contextualized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualization and abstraction both within and beyond the realm of the moral. We highlight some of the criticisms anthropologists have made of the "thinness" of ethical thought experiments while also suggesting some ways in which philosophers might wish to defend them. We also point to a growing interest on the part of a range of anthropologists in formalized, stylized, and abbreviated modes of ethical reasoning, and emphasize the importance of attending to such forms of reasoning, even though they may conflict with our disciplinary preference for the "thick" and the contextualized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 0155977X |
| DOI: | 10.3167/sa.2023.670303 |
