Engineering Morality

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Bekoff and Pierce say "science is shaped in important ways by the worldview of those who engage in it" (BP, p. 30). Identify the sentence from todays' reading you feel is most closely aligned. Briefly explain your selection.
  2. In your own words, describe the difference between Moor's "full ethical agents" and "explicit ethical agents."
  3. Bekoff and Pierce assert that "Behavior becomes immoral when it goes against socially established expectations" (BP, p. 16). Identify the sentence from today's reading you feel is most closely related. Briefly explain your choice.