A non-monotonic extension of Universal Moral Grammar Theory

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Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • D.C. Noelle
  • R. Dale
  • A.S. Warlaumont
  • J. Yoshimi
  • T. Matlock
  • C.D. Jennings
  • P.P. Maglio
Book title COGSCI 2015 : 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Book subtitle Mind, Technology, and Society : Pasadena, California, 23-25 July 2015
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9780991196722
Event CogSci 2015
Volume | Issue number 3
Pages (from-to) 1667-1672
Publisher Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract We extend universal moral grammar (UMGT) with non-monotonic logic. Our experiment shows that such revision is necessary as it allows to account for the effects of alleviations and aggravations in moral reasoning. Our new theory updates UMGT from classical to non-monotonic logic, which reflects the incompleteness of information and uncertainty in actual human reasoning. Moreover, it provides an explanation of the paradoxical findings in the moral dilemma of the Trolley problem and the Knobe effect.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2015/papers/0290/index.html
Other links https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2015/
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