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Putting normativity in its proper place

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Tania Lombrozo  and
Kevin Uttich
Tania Lombrozo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. lombrozo@berkeley.eduuttich@berkeley.eduhttp://cognition.berkeley.edu/
Kevin Uttich
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. lombrozo@berkeley.eduuttich@berkeley.eduhttp://cognition.berkeley.edu/
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Abstract

Knobe considers two explanations for the influence of moral considerations on “non-moral” cognitive systems: the “person as moralist” position, and the “person as [biased] scientist” position. We suggest that this dichotomy conflates questions at computational and algorithmic levels, and suggest that distinguishing the issues at these levels reveals a third, viable option, which we call the “rational scientist” position.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 344 - 345
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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