Frankfurt
A human who does not care about the constitution of their will.
What is a wanton?
The two general types of ignorance Arpaly distinguishes between.
What are factual ignorance and moral ignorance?
Moody-Adams investigates whether this can be an excuse for moral wrongdoing.
What is culture?
The phenomenon that Smith is investigating.
What is implicit bias?
Arpaly discusses various characters to help us think through conditions of moral blameworthiness. Two of these characters are (name any two) ____ and ____.
Who are (any two from reading and activity).
A desire for a desire.
Second Order Desire
The type of ignorance Arpaly believes is not excusable.
What is moral ignorance?
The view that culture makes people unable to evaluate the morality of certain actions.
What is the inability thesis?
When something was an act of your agency and you can be asked questions about your reasons for acting.
What is moral responsibility/answerability?
Utilitarianism is an example of this kind of ethical theory.
What is consequentialism?
The ability to will what one wants to will.
Freedom of the Will
What we should name non-human animals and treat accordingly (Diamond).
What are fellow creatures?
The name of the experiments that Moody-Adams brings up to contest its implications.
What are the Milgram experiments?
The view of agency/the self that Smith rejects.
What is the conscious self view?
Deontology is an example of this kind of ethical theory.
What is non-consequentialism?
The theory that embraces elements of both free will and determinism.
What is compatibilism.
A specific area of philosophy Diamond focuses on in her research, which is also evident in her argument.
What is philosophy of language?
The term that explains the phenomenon of pretending we do not know what is morally wrong.
What is affected ignorance?
The state that is a precondition for moral blameworthiness.
What is moral responsibility?
The ability that Kant argues allows people to know and to follow moral rules.
What is reason (or rationality)?
The process of thinking about what you want to will.
What is reflective self-evaluation?
A type of bias that meat-eaters are guilty of, according to utilitiarians. (Diamond critiques this view).
What is speciesism?
Believing that criticizing another culture is disrespectful of that culture.
What is misguided relativism?
The number of reasons Smith offers in support of the complex self view.
What is 3?
Two ethical theories that the trolley car problem brings up.
What are utilitarianism and deontology?