Ethical Decision-Making Task

An Ethical Decision-Making Task is a conscious decision task that requires a morally-judgeable action as an end state (that is morally judgeable as being a good action to being a bad action).

• Context:
  • Input: Morally-Judgeable Situation.
  • output: Morally-Judgeable Decision.
    • optional: a Moral Argument.
  • It can be instantiated as an Ethical Decision Act (that results in a morally-judgeable act)
• Example(s):
  • "Should I donate money to UNICEF, and if so then how much?".
  • "Should we/society allow the development of lethal autonomous weapon systems?" (Russell, 2015).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Economic Decision Making Task/Economic Decision.
• See: Game Task, Ethical Choice, Personal Right, Valuability Function.

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References

2009

• (Glenn et al., 209) ⇒ Andrea L. Glenn, Adrian Raine, and Robert A. Schug. (2009). “The Neural Correlates of Moral Decision-Making in Psychopathy.".

1991

• (Jones, 1991) ⇒ Thomas M. Jones. (1991). “Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An issue-contingent model.” In: Academy of management review, 16(2).

1970

• (Schwartz, 1970) ⇒ Shalom H. Schwartz. (1970). “Moral Decision Making and Behavior.” In: Altruism and helping behavior.

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