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THE EMPIRICAL IDENTITY OF MORAL JUDGEMENT.

I argue that moral judgement is a natural kind on the grounds that it plays a causal/explanatory role in psychological generalizations. I then develop an empirically grounded theory of its identity as a natural kind. I argue that moral judgement is a hybrid state of moral belief and moral emotion. T...

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Published in:Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 66; no. 265; pp. 783 - 805
Main Author: KUMAR, VICTOR
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Oct2016
Subjects:
Judgment (Psychology)
Ethics
Motivation (Psychology)
Cognition
Reasoning
Philosophical research
Psychology
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