Disgust as Heuristic.
Suppose that disgust can provide evidence of moral wrongdoing. What account of disgust might make sense of this? A recent and promising theory is the social contagion view, proposed by Alexandra Plakias. After criticizing both its descriptive and normative claims, I draw two conclusions. First, we s...
| Publicado en: | Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 679 - 694 |
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