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Qualitative judgments, quantitative judgments, and norm-sensitivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Paul Egré
Paul Egré
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Institut Jean-Nicod (ENS-EHESS-CNRS), 75005 Paris, France. [email protected]://paulegre.free.fr
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Abstract

Moral considerations and our normative expectations influence not only our judgments about intentional action or causation but also our judgments about exact probabilities and quantities. Whereas those cases support the competence theory proposed by Knobe in his paper, they remain compatible with a modular conception of the interaction between moral and nonmoral cognitive faculties in each of those domains.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 335 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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