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Neurosentimentalism and Moral Agency.

Metaethics has recently been confronted by evidence from cognitive neuroscience that tacit emotional processes play an essential causal role in moral judgement. Most neuroscientists, and some metaethicists, take this evidence to vindicate a version of metaethical sentimentalism. In this paper we arg...

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Published in:Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 119; no. 475; pp. 585 - 615
Main Authors: Gerrans, Philip, Kennett, Jeanette
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2010
Subjects:
Sentimentalism
Metaethics
Cognitive neuroscience
Neuroscientists
Philosophy
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