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Are we really moralizing creatures through and through?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Stephen Stich  and
Tomasz Wysocki
Stephen Stich
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ [email protected]://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~stich/
Tomasz Wysocki
Affiliation:
Institute of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw, ul. Koszarowa 3, 51-149 Wrocław, Poland. [email protected]://www.xphi-europe.org/
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Abstract

Knobe contends that in making judgments about a wide range of matters, moral considerations and scientific considerations are “jumbled together” and thus that “we are moralizing creatures through and through.” We argue that his own account of the mechanism underlying these judgments does not support this radical conclusion.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 351 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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