‘Moral machine’ experiment is no basis for policymaking

There is no scientific basis for retiring the MMSE.

El artículo de Carnero-Pardo publicado en Neurología1 reaviva el debate sobre la caducidad del Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)2 en una revisión que esgrime aparentes razones para «jubilarlo», sobre todo la pretendida mayor eficacia de test más cortos y efectivos en la detección del deterioro cognitivo (DC). Pero creemos que los argumentos del Dr. Carnero-Pardo están sesgados por el escaso ...

SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 1: What is evidence-informed policymaking?

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we discuss the following three questions: What is evidence? What is the role of research evidence in informing health policy decisions? What is evidence-informed policymaking? Evidence-informed health policyma...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

The Non-moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions

Against moral intuitionism, which holds that moral intuitions can be non-inferentially justified, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that moral intuitions are unreliable and must be confirmed to be justified (i.e. must be justified inferentially) because they are subject to cognitive biases. However, I suggest this is merely a renewed version of the argument from disagreement against intuitionism....

Neural basis of moral verdict and moral deliberation.

How people judge something to be morally right or wrong is a fundamental question of both the sciences and the humanities. Here we aim to identify the neural processes that underlie the specific conclusion that something is morally wrong. To do this, we introduce a novel distinction between "moral deliberation," or the weighing of moral considerations, and the formation of a "moral verdict," or...