A blog about philosophical explorations supported by the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP)
This is a post by Andrés Soria-Ruiz (University of Barcelona).
Think of the following: for all you know, you could be living in a computer simulation. Your friends might be so-called “Non-Player Characters”; your home, your surroundings might all be part of a sophisticated illusion. All of that is possible, and more worryingly, you—we—have no way of telling whether that’s actually the case.
This is a post by Josefa (Pepa) Toribio (ICREA, University of Barcelona).
Some actions strike us as right or wrong—as morally charged. For example, imagine you see someone helping an elderly person cross the street. You might immediately feel that this is a good action. Conversely, if you witness someone being rude to a cashier, you might instantly sense that this behaviour is wrong. When we recognize that an action is wrong, what does this recognition involve? How should we understand this sensitivity to basic moral properties?
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