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The person as moralist account and its alternatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe
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Program in Cognitive Science and Department of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8306. [email protected]://pantheon.yale.edu/~jk762/
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Abstract

The commentators offer helpful suggestions at three levels: (1) explanations for the particular effects discussed in the target article; (2) implications of those effects for our understanding of the role of moral judgment in human cognition; and (3) more theoretical questions about the overall relationship between ordinary cognition and systematic science. The present response takes up these three issues in turn.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 353 - 365
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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