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- Title
Do Emotions Play a Constitutive Role in Moral Cognition?
- Authors
Huebner, Bryce
- Abstract
Recent behavioral experiments, along with imaging experiments and neuropsychological studies appear to support the hypothesis that emotions play a causal or constitutive role in moral judgment. Those who resist this hypothesis tend to suggest that affective mechanisms are better suited to play a modulatory role in moral cognition. But I argue that claims about the role of emotion in moral cognition frame the debate in ways that divert attention away from other plausible hypotheses. I suggest that the available data may be more plausibly explained by appeal to predictive and evaluative mechanisms, which are neither wholly affective nor straightforwardly cognitive. By recognizing this fact, we can begin to see why questions about the role of emotion in moral psychology are likely to be empirically misguided.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS; COGNITION; MORAL judgment; AFFECT (Psychology); MORAL psychology; ANALOGY (Linguistics); ETHICS
- Publication
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 2, p427
- ISSN
0167-7411
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11245-013-9223-6