tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post2399164610829922094..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: Professional Philosophers’ Susceptibility to Order Effects and Framing Effects in Evaluating Moral DilemmasEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-16392878312841919292014-10-30T13:14:12.639-07:002014-10-30T13:14:12.639-07:00What Callan said.What Callan said.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-74956943820951339352014-10-26T15:20:43.053-07:002014-10-26T15:20:43.053-07:00Ochlo,
Ironically I'd think not, since people...Ochlo,<br /><br />Ironically I'd think not, since people tend to think the law, as practiced, will follow the moral direction they take. 'It had to be done!'<br /><br />I don't know how to prove that, but it might be interesting to run 'push', but mentioning to the subjects the law potentially taking it's own, very different interpretation of events and with that different interpretation, a potential hefty jail term. And of course a control group where you don't mention that idea to subjects.Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-26493022048666869032014-10-24T15:21:59.281-07:002014-10-24T15:21:59.281-07:00When considering moral dilemmas of this sort, are ...When considering moral dilemmas of this sort, are people given explicit instructions to ignore the consequences of their actions for them? <br /><br />For example, we might (however consciously) consider how our actions will be interpreted by others, so the Push is more likely to involve future imprisonment. I wonder if we can effectively suppress our sense of how acts are viewed by others when asked to make these kinds of judgements. <br /><br />That is, when answering these questions publicly - since we are reporting our answer to someone - are we "picking our nose in public" so to speak if we express a willingness to Push? <br /><br />ochlocratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-25088281282390775332014-10-24T10:08:17.070-07:002014-10-24T10:08:17.070-07:00Anon, I agree it would be interesting to try to ex...Anon, I agree it would be interesting to try to extend it to other areas. Of course, there is a large literature on expertise and what it does and doesn't get you; including a bit on framing effects and loss aversion (but not to my knowledge at the high levels Fiery & I test); but it hasn't been done with trolley-like moral dilemmas that I'm aware of.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-25147287934058647642014-10-23T19:27:26.970-07:002014-10-23T19:27:26.970-07:00Have you ever tried this with people who possess o...Have you ever tried this with people who possess other kinds of expertise? This sounds like the kind of thing that economists and sociopaths would get 'right' more often due to a lack of empathy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-50461035638444706762014-10-21T13:57:16.499-07:002014-10-21T13:57:16.499-07:00Joachim: Obviously we need more empirical evidence...Joachim: Obviously we need more empirical evidence!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-44073710924116915542014-10-21T06:41:11.252-07:002014-10-21T06:41:11.252-07:00Eric: In light of your results, it actually strike...Eric: In light of your results, it actually strikes me as quite optimistic to expect that order effects must disappear at some level of expertise. At any rate, in studies with other world-class experts, e.g. Olympic gymnastic judges (Damisch, L., Mussweiler, T., and Plessner, H., 2006, Olympic Medals as Fruits of Comparison? Assimilation and Contrast in Sequential Performance Judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 12, 166–178), order effects didn't disappear. And I'm not sure how helpful it would be for the practice of philosophy at large if only a handful of super-duper-experts like Thomson or Fisher were resistant to such effects...Joachim Horvathhttps://sites.google.com/site/johorvath/homenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-85241766702093437992014-10-20T16:01:52.186-07:002014-10-20T16:01:52.186-07:00Definitely a possibility, Callan. In the conclusi...Definitely a possibility, Callan. In the conclusion of our 2012 paper, Fiery and I gesture toward something like that, in fact!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-47619968847058821702014-10-18T18:23:58.099-07:002014-10-18T18:23:58.099-07:00Eric,
Fiery argues in other work -- plausibly, I...Eric,<br /><br /><i><br />Fiery argues in other work -- plausibly, I think -- that an important factor influencing people's condemnation of Push is the idea that it's worse to harm by physical contact than to do the same harm without physical contact, though if you act people specifically about that, they deny that moral judgments should be influenced in that way.</i><br /><br />That's really kind of interesting - I'd pitch the idea that you have two interests occuring. Perhaps one could be called emotion, and it doesn't want to push someone to their death (understanbably). But then the other interest could be called 'intellect' and it has to be seen to be consistant, so if you pitch them in a particular order, intellect will insist on being consistant between the two (with academic further affected by the intellect consistancy urge?). Pitch them in the other order and emotion gets in first and intellect isn't fast enough to realise this will cause a latter inconsistancy.<br /><br />I wonder what else could be done to try and seperate the two hypothesized interests? In an attempt to show them as seperate things, anyway?<br /><br />Congrats on the research, Eric! :)Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-16168416545486602412014-10-18T06:59:20.737-07:002014-10-18T06:59:20.737-07:00Joachim -- yeah, a confidence rating would be inte...Joachim -- yeah, a confidence rating would be interesting. But it's not straightforward what the relationship is, I think, between confidence and what one's considered view. For example, further consideration might decrease rather than increase confidence. We were trying to get at considered views by asking about "stability" and (in a different way) by including a reflection condition, but neither attempt seemed to reduce the effect. I do think there are still some things to try. I don't think that Wright/Rini-style possibilities have been exhausted yet. And there must be *some* level of expertise at which the effects largely disappear. As we mention at the end of the paper it's hard to imagine that Judith Jarvis Thomson's or John Martin Fisher's equivalency judgments would be much influenced by order.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-29942066179248669052014-10-17T08:34:07.497-07:002014-10-17T08:34:07.497-07:00Great study! I think there aren't many options...Great study! I think there aren't many options left for proponents of the expertise defense to explain your results in a friendly way. But maybe one could raise the issue whether and how order and framing effects actually affect people's considered views about e.g. trolley-type cases - i.e., the kinds of views people would actually endorse in their published work. For example, what about testing, for each individual rating, how confident people are about their rating? Based on that, one could check whether there is a significant interaction of low confidence with susceptibility to order and framing effects. And if there is such an interaction, one could argue that, although even experts are susceptible to these effects, they might still be less likely to endorse the relevant verdicts as their considered views - and this is what we ultimately care about in philosophical practice (I'm kind of blending themes from the work of Jennifer Wright and Regina Rini here).Joachim Horvathhttps://sites.google.com/site/johorvath/homenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-36794131442030294882014-10-17T07:11:55.459-07:002014-10-17T07:11:55.459-07:00Callan -- part of the set up is supposed to be tha...Callan -- part of the set up is supposed to be that the hiker's weight and backpack makes it so he's heavy enough to stop the train, though you aren't. (How you know this is left unsaid.) But as Mathieu says, there's also and interesting version in Thomson 2008 where you have the choice of sacrificing yourself, someone else, or letting the trolley kill the five.<br /><br />Fiery argues in other work -- plausibly, I think -- that an important factor influencing people's condemnation of Push is the idea that it's worse to harm by physical contact than to do the same harm without physical contact, though if you act people specifically about that, they deny that moral judgments should be influenced in that way.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-80743243287322946502014-10-17T02:23:13.160-07:002014-10-17T02:23:13.160-07:00It's kind of off topic, but I wonder if the pu...It's kind of off topic, but I wonder if the push tends to make it more personal and not just that, but if you could push them and you advocate that, you're close enough to be pushed yourself and what if they push you and are you advocating your own demise?<br /><br />But if you ran a study on it, you must consider push and switch as somehow dissimilar yourselves - how would you describe the difference, Eric?<br /><br />Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-80144549787864151632014-10-16T22:51:27.969-07:002014-10-16T22:51:27.969-07:00Jason: Well, I do find them to be very interesting...Jason: Well, I do find them to be very interesting results!<br /><br />Mathieu: It's an interesting thought -- and yet I would also emphasize that it's one thing to change your mind after years of hard thought and quite another to shift your reaction based on short-term features of the presentation. I doubt Thomson would do that, for these cases!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-45149971116565039292014-10-16T10:37:36.092-07:002014-10-16T10:37:36.092-07:00At the end of your draft article you write " ...At the end of your draft article you write " We wouldn’t expect, for example, that Judith Jarvis Thomson (1985) would rate Push <br />and Switch equivalently if the scenarios are presented in one order and inequivalently if they are <br />presented in another order." It seems to me that J.J.Thomson may have actually fallen pray to a bias since in her 2008 article "Turning the trolley"(Philosophy & Public Affairs 36, no. 4) she changed her moral judgement (after more than 20 years of thinking about it!) that it is not ideed permissible to turn the trolley in the switch scenario by considering a "framing" where there is a 3rd option to turn the trolley onto herself .... which made her realize that by swithing the trolley we kill 1 (negative duty) and by not switching we merely let 5 die. It is a different kind of framing but still i find her change of "heart" very interesting.Mathieuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09766199744020572083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-36642397863660901472014-10-16T09:57:31.947-07:002014-10-16T09:57:31.947-07:00You must be so happy, Eric!You must be so happy, Eric!Jason Stanleynoreply@blogger.com