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sunstein's heuristics provide insufficient descriptive and explanatory adequacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

marc d. hauser
marc d. hauser
Affiliation:
departments of psychology, organismic and evolutionary biology, and biological anthropology, harvard university, cambridge, ma 02138 mdhauser@wjh.harvard.edu http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab
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in considering a domain of knowledge – language, music, mathematics, or morality – it is necessary to derive principles that can describe the mature state and explain how an individual reaches this state. although sunstein's heuristics go some way toward a description of our moral sense, it is not clear that they are at the right level of description, and as stated, they provide no guidelines for looking at the acquisition process – the problem of explanatory adequacy.

Type
open peer commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 553 - 554
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press