Contemporary Moral Issues Philosophy 215 Fall 2014 Instructor: Valerie Philbrick-DeBrava Office: James Blair 132 Email: vaphilbrickdeb@wm.edu Office Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00 Phone: (804) 642-4621 Course Times: MWF 10:00-10:50 (01) Course Location: James Blair 201 MWF 11:00-11:50 (02) Course Description: Philosophy 215 is designed to improve our understanding of the moral issues our twenty-first-century society faces. As both a survey of
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Serious Questions about the Stanford Prison Experiment July 15‚ 2008 The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) by Phil Zimbardo has been for me an example of the astonishing things that we humans are capable of. I guess as an example of human gullibility‚ I had not been skeptical about the experiment‚ which lacks quite a few scientific markers (aside from its ethical problems). During a talk by Barbara Oakley‚ she was asked to comment about the SPE because it showed the influence the situation and roles
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Private Manning was convicted of leaking restricted military files to WikiLeaks and was arrested on the twenty sixth of May in Iraq. Since then he has been imprisoned at Quantico in Virginia and has been treated as the some of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib have. For example‚ he is in solitary confinement twenty three out of twenty four hours‚ on the twenty four hours his ankles must be shackled on the way to and on the way back from the exercise room. Finally‚ he is forced to sleep naked and when
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The Stanford Prison Experiment – Phillip Zimbardo Introduction Headed by Phillip Zimbardo‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment was designed with the aim of investigating how readily people would behave and react to the roles given to them within a simulated prison. The experiment showed that the social expectations that people have of specific social situations can direct and strongly influence behaviour. The concepts evident in the Stanford Prison Experiment include social influence‚ and within that
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Colts * Except openness to differing opinions * Finding holes in all arguments that go against the group’s desires * The 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion was the result of groupthink. * Cults are to _______________ as Abu Ghraib is to _______________. C) groupthink; deindividuation * and is effective at immunizing people from undesirable beliefs. B) inoculation effect: is the treatment in which people are first introduced to the reasons why a belief seems to be
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Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain
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“Physical torture can affect the brain‚ too. But by itself‚ “psychological torture undermines the very ability to think‚ and it doesn’t leave any marks.”- Psychologist Steven Reisner. One of the many techniques the government uses to interrogate mainly terrorist is a form of torture to get them to give up information. They use techniques such as waterboarding‚ rectal feeding and hydration‚ confinement in boxes‚ using cold water beating‚ threats‚ etc. Using torture is very uncommon‚ it is only used
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“Ordinary people‚ under the direction of an authority figure‚ would obey just about any order they were given‚ even to torture” (The Atlantic‚ Rethinking One of Psychology’s Most Infamous Experiments). Stanley Milgram ran an experiment at yale that tested one’s willingness to follow orders from an . This experiment is more commonly known as the Milgram Experiment. Stanley Milgram randomly selected people who responded to the advertisement in the newspaper. Stanley had subject one in a room with
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Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Throughout history the argument of power falling hand in hand with corruption has been brought to our attention in devastating scenes of destruction‚ turmoil and moments which will never be forgotten. But do these moments conclude that power eventually leads to corruption? Are there events over the past 100 years or more which argue this fact? In this essay I will discuss my own opinion on this topic looking at crucial figure heads in history
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JASTA Act JASTA is bill that allows civil claims based in the U.S territory and borders against foreign countries for the liability of terrorism acts which foreign state is sponsoring directly or indirectly‚ resulting in either personal or property damages. The congress considered the JASTA act as a claim to compensate families who were injured by the 9/11 attacks. The main purpose of the act is to narrow and limit the immunity of foreign states in cases where international
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