Religiousness and moral consciousness of students

Moral Responsibility and Consciousness

Our goal in this paper is to raise a general question about the relationship between theories of responsibility, on the one hand, and a commitment to conscious attitudes, on the other. The evidence from cognitive science suggests that there are no conscious mental states playing the right causal roles to count as decisions, judgments, or evaluations. We propose that all theorists should determi...

Consciousness and Moral Responsibility

Whenandunderwhat circumstances arewe responsible for our actions?What roledoes conscious awareness of one’s actions play in the assessment and ascription of responsibility? To answer these questions, Neil Levy has written a provocative and interesting account of the necessary role of consciousness in the assessment of responsibility for action. In an economical 150 pages, Levy makes the case fo...

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

ive achievement has a double effect: under a strict deontological point of view, moral questions are taken out of their contexts in such a way that mora] solutions retain only the rationally motivating force of insights. 179 Moral Consciousness Communicative Action Moral issues are never raised for their own sake; people raise them seeking a guide for action. For this reason the demotivated sol...

Automaticity, Consciousness and Moral Responsibility

Moral significance of phenomenal consciousness.

Recent work in neuroimaging suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state are actually conscious. In this paper, we critically examine this new evidence. We argue that though it remains open to alternative interpretations, it strongly suggests the presence of consciousness in some patients. However, we argue that its ethical significance is less than many peo...