Are moral judgments unified?
@article{SinnottArmstrong2014AreMJ, title={Are moral judgments unified?}, author={Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong and T. Wheatley}, journal={Philosophical Psychology}, year={2014}, volume={27}, pages={451 - 474} }
Whenever psychologists, neuroscientists, or philosophers draw conclusions about moral judgments in general from a small selected sample, they assume that moral judgments are unified by some common and peculiar feature that enables generalizations and makes morality worthy of study as a unified field. We assess this assumption by considering the six main candidates for a unifying feature: content, phenomenology, force, form, function, and brain mechanisms. We conclude that moral judgment is not… CONTINUE READING
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