Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 33 / Issue 04 / August 2010, pp 346-346
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10001822 (About DOI), Published online: 22 October 2010
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Expectations and morality: A dilemma
Eric Mandelbauma1 and David Ripleya2
a1 Faculty of Philosophy, The Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1PT, United Kingdom Eric.Mandelbaum@philosophy.ox.ac.uk http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/our_staff/research/eric_mandelbaum
a2 Institut Jean Nicod, DEC-ENS, 75005 Paris, France. davewripley@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/davewripley
Abstract
We propose Knobe's explanation of his cases encounters a dilemma: Either his explanation works and, counterintuitively, morality is not at the heart of these effects; or morality is at the heart of the effects and Knobe's explanation does not succeed. This dilemma is then used to temper the use of the Knobe paradigm for discovering moral norms.
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