How to Decide Moral Questions Rationally

How to define ‘Moral Realism’

Moral realism is the doctrine that some propositions asserting that some action is ‘morally’ good (obligatory, bad, or wrong) are true. This paper examines three different definitions of what it is for an action to be ‘morally’ good (with corresponding definitions for ‘morally’ obligatory, bad, or wrong) which would make moral realism a clear and plausible view. The first defines ‘morally good ...

Deciding How to Decide

, © Velleman This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. By “deciding how to decide”, I mean using practical reasoning to regulate one’s principles of practical reasoning. David Gauthier has sugg...

How to decide what to do?

There are many conceptualizations and formalizations of decision making. In this paper we compare classical decision theory with qualitative decision theory, knowledge-based systems and belief-desire-intention models developed in artificial intelligence and agent theory. They all contain representations of information and motivation. Examples of informational attitudes are probability distribut...

How Do Bacteria Decide Where to Divide?

Lawrence I. Rothfield and Chun-Rui Zhao the ability to form polar septa suggests that elements of the division machinery that are still competent to Department of Microbiology University of Connecticut Health Center support cytokinesis remain at the ends of the daughter cells after septation and cell separation have been comFarmington, Connecticut 06030 pleted (Teather et al., 1974). Reuse of t...

How to decide on software testing techniques?