Book contents
- Good Thinking
- Good Thinking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Part I
- One The Game of Logic – What Follows from What
- Two Moral Judgment – How We Tell Right from Wrong
- Three Analogical Reasoning – The Heart and Soul of Insight, Discovery, and Genius
- Four Scientific Reasoning – Proving What Causes What
- Five Decision-Making – Choosing What Is Most Likely to Give You What You Most Want
- Six Game Theory – When You’re Not the Only One Choosing
- Seven Creative Problem-Solving – Turning What You Don’t Want into What You Do Want
- Part II
- Appendix A Answers to Insight Problems
- Answer Key to Quizzes
- Notes
- Index
Two - Moral Judgment – How We Tell Right from Wrong
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2021
- Good Thinking
- Good Thinking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Part I
- One The Game of Logic – What Follows from What
- Two Moral Judgment – How We Tell Right from Wrong
- Three Analogical Reasoning – The Heart and Soul of Insight, Discovery, and Genius
- Four Scientific Reasoning – Proving What Causes What
- Five Decision-Making – Choosing What Is Most Likely to Give You What You Most Want
- Six Game Theory – When You’re Not the Only One Choosing
- Seven Creative Problem-Solving – Turning What You Don’t Want into What You Do Want
- Part II
- Appendix A Answers to Insight Problems
- Answer Key to Quizzes
- Notes
- Index
Summary
In 2015, an online video went viral showing a self-parking car plow into a group of on-lookers. The car, a Volvo XC60, was not malfunctioning. Instead, the driver mistakenly believed that the car was equipped to detect pedestrians. But, as it turned out, the pedestrian-detection feature is not standard for this self-parking car. It is an add-on, a “luxury upgrade” that had not been purchased by the owner. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.
In light of reported accidents like this (including one in which a pedestrian was killed), regulators and technophiles have begun asking, Are We Programming Killer Cars? While it seems straightforward that self-driving cars should be designed to avoid killing people and animals, it is far from straightforward how this would be done.
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- Good ThinkingSeven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think, pp. 19 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021