Moral Reasoning Task

A Moral Reasoning Task is a reasoning task that is required to produce a moral argument.

• AKA: Ethical Reasoning.
• Context:
  • Input: Morally-Judgeable Choices.
  • output: a Moral Argument.
  • It can precede in a Moral Decision Task.
  • It can range from being Utilitarian Moral Reasoning, Duty-based Moral Reasoning, to being ...
  • It can be instantiated in a Moral Reasoning Act (to support a moral act).
  • It can be studied by a Moral Reasoning Discipline.
• Example(s):
  • “Is moral choice X morally prudent given evidence E?.”
  • "A healthy mature adult should donate one of their kidneys because they sacrifice on average a few weeks of life to give a few years of life."
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Economic Reasoning Task, such as “Is economic choice X economically prudent given evidence E?.”
  • a Algorithm Analysis Task.
• See: Consequentialism, Ethical Relationship, Human Relationships, Moral Development, Descriptive Ethics.

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References

2000

• (Zarinpoush et al., 2000) ⇒ Fataneh Zarinpoush, Martin Cooper, and Stephanie Moylan. (2000). “The Effects of Happiness and Sadness on Moral Reasoning.” In: Journal of Moral Education 29, no. 4
  • QUOTE: … To extend the study to other moral issues, a further relevant question is whether mood effects can be observed in a moral reasoning task when the task is more socially disturbing. This matter is addressed in our final experiment.

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