Event Title
Findings on the Moral Obligations of Charitable Actions
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
30-4-2015 9:00 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 10:55 AM
Project Type
Poster
Description
A presentation on the research findings of surveys taken world wide via Amazon Mturk. The questions in study was based on Peter Singer's paper: Famine, Affluence, and Morality, and calls into questions why people seem to have a disposition to help others in immediate danger or need, but now send aid of comparable value to charities across the world. The survey created and run was a variation on that, and then a second variation on that to more directly get at one aspect of the idea of giving to charities. The research suggests people distrust certain ideas, like charities, but in many situations it is all subject to the case in question. The CLAS poster would be about this research, the survey, and what was found.
Faculty Sponsor
John Waterman
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Philosophy Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1682
Findings on the Moral Obligations of Charitable Actions
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
A presentation on the research findings of surveys taken world wide via Amazon Mturk. The questions in study was based on Peter Singer's paper: Famine, Affluence, and Morality, and calls into questions why people seem to have a disposition to help others in immediate danger or need, but now send aid of comparable value to charities across the world. The survey created and run was a variation on that, and then a second variation on that to more directly get at one aspect of the idea of giving to charities. The research suggests people distrust certain ideas, like charities, but in many situations it is all subject to the case in question. The CLAS poster would be about this research, the survey, and what was found.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/175