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Neurobiology supports virtue theory on the role of heuristics in moral cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

William D. Casebeer
William D. Casebeer*
Affiliation:
National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA93943http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfpfa/cvs/casebeer.html
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Abstract

Sunstein is right that poorly informed heuristics can influence moral judgment. His case could be strengthened by tightening neurobiologically plausible working definitions regarding what a heuristic is, considering a background moral theory that has more strength in wide reflective equilibrium than “weak consequentialism,” and systematically examining what naturalized virtue theory has to say about the role of heuristics in moral reasoning.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 547 - 548
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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