Ep. 2 - Not All Who Ponder Count Costs (with Paul Conway)

In this podcast episode , I'll be reading Paul Conway's and my recent paper about moral dilemmas entitled, "Not all who ponder count costs: Arithmetic reflection predicts utilitarian tendencies, but logical reflection predicts both deontological and utilitarian tendencies". In this paper we find that—contrary to some dual process theories' claims—consequentialist responses to moral dilemmas may not be more reflective per se, but rather more influenced by mathematical information. As with all of my papers, the free preprint of the paper can be found on my CV at byrdnick.com/cv under "Publications". Byrd, N., & Conway, P. (2019). Not all who ponder count costs: Arithmetic reflection predicts utilitarian tendencies, but logical reflection predicts both deontological and utilitarian tendencies. Cognition, 192. If this sounds like the kind of research that you want to hear more about, you can

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Ep. 2 - Not All Who Ponder Count Costs (with Paul Conway) is an episode from Upon Reflection by Nick Byrd.

This episode is 1:19:35 long.

This episode was published on Sep 2, 2019.

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