Deck 3: Ethics

Question 1

Moral action is amenable to both a causal explanation and a:

A) Moral explanation
B) Reason explanation
C) Casual explanation
D) Technological explanation

Answer 1

B
Johnson and Powers note that moral behavior is amenable to both a causal explanation and a reason explanation.

Question 2

Aristotle held that the subject matter of moral appraisal was:

A) Intended voluntary behavior
B) Intended behavior only
C) Voluntary behavior only
D) Neither intended nor voluntary behavior

Answer 2

A
Aristotle held that the subject matter of moral appraisal was intended voluntary behavior.

Question 3

Who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?

A) Weber
B) Rawls
C) Marcuse
D) Kant

Answer 3

A
Max Weber wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Question 4

According to Johnson and Powers,which era are we living in?

A) The Jurassic
B) The Technocene
C) The Anthropocene
D) The Anodyne

Question 5

What does Jonas claim has become a prime duty?

A) Virtue
B) Goodness
C) Maximizing happiness
D) Knowledge

Question 6

How is the functionality of artifacts often framed?

A) In terms of teleological explanation
B) In terms of deontological explanation
C) In terms of cosmological explanation
D) In terms of ontological explanation

Question 7

What model of intentional behavior has contemporary action theory suggested?

A) A casual model
B) A modal model
C) A causal model
D) A technological model

Question 8

What is "intentionality"?

A) The property of acting intentionally
B) The property of about-ness
C) The property of being deliberate
D) The property of deliberation

Question 9

Johnson and Powers explicitly deny that moral evaluation is:

A) Zero sum
B) Cumulative
C) Applicable to agents
D) Applicable to actions

Question 10

Who described the "accordion effect"?

A) Rawls
B) Powers
C) Kant
D) Feinberg

Question 11

What type of human does Jonas write of?

A) Homo sapiens
B) Homo faber
C) Homo erectus
D) Homo economicus

Question 12

Design functions,like mathematical functions,are not:

A) One-to-many relations
B) Accessible relations
C) Intentional relations
D) Artifacts

Question 13

What have received the most attention as the best candidates for non-human moral agency?

A) Computers
B) Apes
C) Dolphins
D) Trees

Question 14

What is the accordion effect?

A) The tendency of technology to improve music
B) The tendency of technology to supplant artistry
C) A feature of descriptive language
D) A feature of artifact innovation

Question 15

Where do Johnson and Powers locate agency?

A) In the designer and user
B) In the user
C) In the artifact and the user
D) In the designer, user and artifact

Question 16

Who holds that we are living on an increasingly anthropogenic planet?

A) Feinberg
B) Rawls
C) Allenby
D) Mill

Question 17

Johnson and Powers hold that allowing artifacts to have agency:

A) Diminishes the responsibility of their users
B) Does not diminish the responsibility of their users
C) Is philosophically mistaken as it broadens the scope of the moral community too far
D) Is philosophically mistaken as it still offers an overly narrow view of moral agency

Question 18

Who declared that man is a "Tool-using animal"?

A) Thomas Carlyle
B) Charles Darwin
C) Horatio Nelson
D) Thomas Powers

Question 19

Who addressed the "design problem"?

A) Kuhn
B) Dyson
C) Dretske
D) Kant

Question 20

Johnson and Powers believe that computer systems:

A) Are infallible
B) Can err
C) Can err and misbehave
D) Can err but not misbehave