PhilSoc Presents Glen Pettigrove: Psychological Research Proves Virtue Ethics Is Wrong! Or Does It?

In this episodes we host Prof.
Glen Pettigrove Glasgow on Virtue Ethics and Moral Psychology. Abstract: We are influenced by our environment.
That is not a news flash of course.
It would be weird if we were not.
What is newsworthy is how we are influenced by features of our environment and how much.
In a series of studies conducted over the past 70 years social psychologists have found people acting in unexpected ways as a result of their environment.
They meted out harsher punishments when they were in a filthy or smelly room than when they were in a clean one.
They were more inclined to help others when near a bakery than when near a shoe shop.
The list goes on.
Over the past few years a number of philosophers most notably Gilbert Harman and John Doris have argued that these studies show us there is no such thing as virtue.
And if virtue is a fiction they contend then ethical theories that are built around the virtues as most theories in the history of ethics have been should be discarded.
My aim in this talk will be to introduce you to some of the studies that led Harman and Doris to their conclusion.
We shall then be in a position to evaluate whether their conclusion is correct.

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