Moral judgments as educated intuitions / Hanno Sauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sauer, Hanno, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment (Ethics).

Ethics--Psychological aspects.

Ethics.

Emotions.

Ethical intuitionism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Contents:

I The Anti-Rationalist Challenge 21

1 The Effectiveness of Moral Reasoning 25

Introduction 25

1 The Effectiveness Thesis 26

2 The Conscious-Reasoning Paradigm 28

3 Running Out of Reasons 29

4 The No Reasons Interpretation 32

5 Moral Reasoning as Confabulation 34

6 Moral Reasoning from an Intuitionist Perspective 36

7 Placebic Reasons 39

8 Moral Principles: Universal Moral Grammar or Confabulation? 41

9 Moral Choice Blindness 43

10 The Social Structure of Moral Reasoning 45

11 The Causality Requirement 47

Conclusion 48

2 Educated Intuitions 51

Introduction 51

1 The Automaticity Challenge 53

2 Habits and Practical Reason 57

3 Intellectualism and the Reasons Theory 61

4 Reason, Habits, and Second Nature 63

5 From Post Hoc Reasoning to Confabulation 65

6 Rational Habits: The Goal-Dependency of Education 66

7 Varieties of Post Hoc Reasoning 67

8 Moral Education: Experience and Teaching 70

9 Ex Ante Education 74

10 Ex Post Education 76

11 Reason and Its Limits 82

Conclusion 83

3 Moral Reasoning as a Social Practice 85

Introduction 85

1 Moral Intuitions and the Structure of Moral Justification 87

2 Structural Contextualism 90

3 Moral Justification and Moral Education 94

4 Confabulation or Inarticulateness? 95

5 From Challenges to Responses 100

6 From Responses to Challenges 102

7 The Flexibility of the Space of Reasons 105

8 Giving and Asking for Reasons 107

9 Moral Justification from an Empirical Perspective 115

Conclusion 126

II The Emotionist Challenge 129

4 Moral Error 139

Introduction 139

1 What Is Emotionism? 141

2 The Infallibility Problem 145

3 Recalcitrant and Flimsy Feelings 147

4 The Wrong Kind of Mistake 150

5 Substantive Moral Mistakes 160

Conclusion 163

5 Are Emotions Necessary for Moral Judgment? 165

Introduction 165

1 The Necessity Thesis: Psychopathy and the Moral/Conventional Distinction 168

2 Perceptual Characteristics of Emotions 173

3 Morality and Emotion: The Limits of Empathy 181

4 Is Reason Necessary for Moral Judgment? 185

Conclusion 191

6 Are Emotions Sufficient for Moral Judgment? 193

Introduction 193

1 The Sufficiency Thesis: Morality and Disgust 194

2 Justificatory Sufficiency 197

3 Moral Judgment and Reasons Responsiveness 200

4 Conceptual Constraints 210

5 What Reflection Can (and Cannot) Do 212

6 A (Limited) Role for Disgust? 217

Conclusion 219

III Applying the Model 223

7 Educated Deontological Intuitions 227

Introduction 227

1 Moral Dilemmas and Moral Intuitions 227

2 "From Neural 'Is' to Moral 'Ought'" 230

3 Functional Neuroimaging and the Problem of Reverse Inference 231

4 Response Time and Cognitive Load 234

5 Brain Lesions and the Dual Process Model 237

6 Up Close and Personal? From the Personal/Impersonal Distinction to the Concept of "Personal Force" 239

7 Intuitive and Counterintuitive Moral Judgment 245

8 Educated Deontological Intuitions 247

Conclusion 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780262035606

026203560X

OCLC:

957339476

Publisher Number:

99971604925