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moral heuristics or moral competence? reflections on sunstein

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

john mikhail
Affiliation:
georgetown university law center, washington, dc 20001 jm455@law.georgetown.edu http://www.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/tab_faculty.cfm?status=faculty&detail=2065
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Abstract

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by focusing on mistaken judgments, sunstein provides a theory of performance errors without a theory of moral competence. additionally, sunstein's objections to thought experiments like the footbridge and trolley problems are unsound. exotic and unfamiliar stimuli are used in theory construction throughout the cognitive sciences, and these problems enable us to uncover the implicit structure of our moral intuitions.

Type
open peer commentary
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press