Utilitarian Moral Judgment Exclusively Coheres with Inference from Is to Ought

Utilitarian Moral Judgment Exclusively Coheres with Inference from Is to Ought

Faced with moral choice, people either judge according to pre-existing obligations (deontological judgment), or by taking into account the consequences of their actions (utilitarian judgment). We propose that the latter coheres with a more general cognitive mechanism – deontic introduction, the tend...

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Main Authors: Shira Elqayam, Meredith R. Wilkinson, Valerie A. Thompson, David E. Over, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
causal inference
defeasibility
deontic introduction
deontic reasoning
deontological moral judgment
is-ought inference
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01042/full

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