Moralistics and Psychomoralistics: A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition

Graham Wood (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Moralistics and Psychomoralistics: A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 October 2022
Pages
96
ISBN
9781032071725

Moralistics and Psychomoralistics: A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition

Graham Wood (University of Tasmania, Australia)

This book brings together three distinct research programs in moral psychology - Moral Foundations Theory, Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange and the Linguistic Analogy in Moral Psychology - and shows that they can be combined to create a unified cognitive science of moral intuition.

The book assumes evolution has furnished the human mind with two types of judgement: intuitive and deliberative. Focusing on moral intuitions (understood as moral judgments that were not arrived at via a process of conscious deliberation), the book explores the origins of these intuitions, examines how they are produced, and explains why the moral intuitions of different humans differ.

Providing a unique synthesis of three separate established fields, this book presents a new research program that will further our understanding of the various different intuitive moral judgements at the heart of some of the moral tensions within human society.

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