If people’s moral-psychological capacities can scarcely adapt to contemporary and future moral challenges, the hope is that some artificial interventions might create more favorable conditions for moral intuitions to improve. This is the objective of debiasing strategies—that is, techniques designed to prevent or mitigate specific biases by improving individual traits either directly or indirectly the environmental conditions in which moral judgments are formed. This chapter examines two paradigmatic forms of direct, debiasing: enhancing individual moral reasoning (Sect. 7.2) and fostering moral expertise (Sect. 7.3). Despite their promise, a critical review of the evidence suggests that neither strategy, if implemented alone, is likely to be particularly effective in reducing biases.

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Debiasing Strategies: The Direct Path

  • Dario Cecchini

摘要

If people’s moral-psychological capacities can scarcely adapt to contemporary and future moral challenges, the hope is that some artificial interventions might create more favorable conditions for moral intuitions to improve. This is the objective of debiasing strategies—that is, techniques designed to prevent or mitigate specific biases by improving individual traits either directly or indirectly the environmental conditions in which moral judgments are formed. This chapter examines two paradigmatic forms of direct, debiasing: enhancing individual moral reasoning (Sect. 7.2) and fostering moral expertise (Sect. 7.3). Despite their promise, a critical review of the evidence suggests that neither strategy, if implemented alone, is likely to be particularly effective in reducing biases.