BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5052-20bc030198d07d98501fa0ee657b6a1c@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260627T190009Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T170000 SUMMARY:Expanding Empathy Lecture Series: Jim A.C. Everett DESCRIPTION:\nLecture title: \;"\;Switching Tracks? A Two-Dimens ional Model of Utilitarian Psychology"\;\n\nAbstract: \;A great deal of work in moral psychology has used sacrificial trolley-style dile mmas to shed light on the psychological processes and individual differe nces associated with &ldquo\;utilitarianism.&rdquo\; Such work has yield ed important insight into our understanding of instrumental harm\, but t here are other&mdash\;more prototypical&mdash\;ways in which utilitarian ism\, as an ethical theory\, departs from common sense moral intuitions. While utilitarianism permits harming innocent individuals when this max imizes aggregate utility (instrumental harm)\, it also tells us to treat with equal importance the interests of all individuals affected\, witho ut giving priority to oneself or those to whom one is especially close ( impartial beneficence). While more fundamental to the utilitarian ideal\ , such impartial beneficence has received scant empirical attention. I w ill present work showing that these dimensions are not merely conceptual ly distinct but empirically distinct\, presenting research documenting d istinct patterns of individual differences\, evidence they are underpinn ed by different processes\, and work (including from a large-scale inter national study in the COVID-19 pandemic) showing they have distinct cons equences for social evaluation. If we wish to understand proto-utilitari an psychology&mdash\;and especially if we want to draw normative conclus ions from such work&mdash\;it \;is crucial to adopt a multidimension al approach\, looking at both instrumental harm and impartial beneficenc e.\n\nPlease register here: \;bit.ly/EE21Everett\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ee-jimaceverett_0407/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lecture titl e: "Switching Tracks? A Two-Dimensional Model of Utilit arian Psychology"

Abstract: A great deal o f work in moral psychology has used sacrificial trolley-style dilemmas t o shed light on the psychological processes and individual differences a ssociated with “utilitarianism.” Such work has yielded impor tant insight into our understanding of instrumental harm, but there are other—more prototypical—ways in which utilitar ianism, as an ethical theory, departs from common sense moral intuitions . While utilitarianism permits harming innocent individuals when this ma ximizes aggregate utility (instrumental harm), it also tells us to treat with equal importance the interests of all individuals affected, withou t giving priority to oneself or those to whom one is especially close (i mpartial beneficence). While more fundamental to the utilitarian ideal, such impartial beneficence has received scant empirical attention. I wil l present work showing that these dimensions are not merely conceptually distinct but empirically distinct, presenting research documenting dist inct patterns of individual differences, evidence they are underpinned b y different processes, and work (including from a large-scale internatio nal study in the COVID-19 pandemic) showing they have distinct consequen ces for social evaluation. If we wish to understand proto-utilitarian ps ychology—and especially if we want to draw normative conclu sions from such work—it is crucial to adopt a multidim ensional approach, looking at both instrumental harm and impartial benef icence.

Please register here: bit.ly/EE21Everett

For more details: https://events.la.psu.e du/event/ee-jimaceverett_0407/

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