The Sheriff in Our Minds
نویسندگان
چکیده
Many people believe that our thoughts can be morally wrong. For example, many regard rape and murder fantasies as In a provocative recent essay, George Sher disagrees with this argues “the realm of the purely mental is best regarded morality-free zone,” wherein “no or attitudes are either forbidden required” (2). Ultimately, “each person’s subjectivity limitless, lawless wild west in which absolutely everything permitted” calls view Wild West Mind.
 I argue against Sher’s position. section I, summarize view. II, criticize argument for Mind. III, outline additional objections to
منابع مشابه
Using our hands to change our minds.
Jean Piaget was a master at observing the routine behaviors children produce as they go from knowing less to knowing more about at a task, and making inferences not only about how children understand the task at each point, but also about how they progress from one point to the next. This article examines a routine behavior that Piaget overlooked-the spontaneous gestures speakers produce as the...
متن کاملRappaport Furrows on Our Minds
Cytokinesis presents us with two mysteries: how a cleavage furrow is localized to a single, defined place in the cell; and how an accumulation of proteins can deform a perfectly stable ovoid shape to create two new cells (Fig. 1). Scientists working in varied organisms met recently in Burlington, VT, to address these questions. Each question has a simple answer, although those answers turn out ...
متن کاملOur Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds
In this chapter we examine variation in the contents of supernatural minds across cultures and the social correlates of this variation. We first provide a sketch of how humans are capable of representing supernatural minds and emphasize the significance of the types of knowledge attributed to supernatural agents. We then argue that the contents of supernatural minds as represented cross-cultura...
متن کاملLearning from gesture: How our hands change our minds.
When people talk, they gesture, and those gestures often reveal information that cannot be found in speech. Learners are no exception. A learner's gestures can index moments of conceptual instability, and teachers can make use of those gestures to gain access into a student's thinking. Learners can also discover novel ideas from the gestures they produce during a lesson, or from the gestures th...
متن کاملHow gesture works to change our minds.
When people talk, they gesture. We now know that these gestures are associated with learning-they can index moments of cognitive instability and reflect thoughts not yet found in speech. But gesture has the potential to do more than just reflect learning-it might be involved in the learning process itself. This review focuses on two non-mutually exclusive possibilities: (1) The gestures we see ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1559-3061']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v22i3.1308