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- Title
The unity of moral attitudes: recipe semantics and credal exaptation<sup>*</sup>.
- Authors
Shiller, Derek
- Abstract
This paper offers a noncognitivist characterization of moral attitudes, according to which moral attitudes count as such because of their inclusion of moral concepts. Moral concepts are distinguished by their contribution to the functional roles of some of the attitudes in which they can occur. They have no particular functional role in other attitudes, and should instead be viewed as evolutionary spandrels. In order to make the counter-intuitive implications of the view more palatable, the paper ends with an account of the evolution of normative judgments as exaptations of the cognitive structures that underlie beliefs.
- Subjects
MORAL attitudes; SEMANTICS (Philosophy); COGNITIVE psychology; NORMATIVITY (Ethics); COGNITIVE structures
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2018, Vol 48, Issue 3/4, p425
- ISSN
0045-5091
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00455091.2017.1413843