Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2282060
Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Jan Wodowski, Joanna Andrusiewicz
Several experimental studies on moral judgment and moral decision-making show that in virtual reality people tend to make more “characteristically utilitarian” decisions than when responding to sta...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2290166
Francesco Rigoli
Research on distributive justice has shown that people’s judgments on how to distribute resources justly are shaped by various criteria including equity, need, equality, and prior ownership. Yet, a...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2290181
Adam Balmer
Externalism about colour phenomenology claims that the phenomenal character of colour experiences is determined by mind-independent properties of perceptual objects. The structural mismatch argumen...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2290172
Arjan S. Heir
Joshua Greene’s dual process account contends that deontological moral judgments are the result of intuitions that are automatic, emotional and arational. Deontological intuitions cannot be trusted...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2286281
Katsunori Miyahara, Shogo Tanaka
Narrative views of the self argue that we constitute our self in self-narratives. Embodied views hold that our self is shaped through embodied experiences. In that case, what is the relation betwee...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2284243
Peter Finocchiaro, Timothy Perrine
English continues to rise as the lingua franca of academic philosophy. Philosophers from all types of linguistic backgrounds use it to communicate with each other across the globe. In this paper, w...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2274489
Joëlle Proust
Perceiving an armchair prepares us to sit. Reading the first line in a text prepares us to read it. This article proposes that the affordance construct used to explain reactive potentiation of beha...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2278637
Paulo Sérgio Boggio, Gabriel Gaudêncio Rêgo, Jim A.C. Everett, Graziela Bonato Vieira, Rose Graves, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
ABSTRACTMorality has traditionally been described in terms of an impartial and objective “moral law”, and moral psychological research has largely followed in this vein, focusing on abstract moral judgments. But might our moral judgments be shaped not just by what the action is, but who is doing it? We looked at ratings of moral wrongness, manipulating whether the person doing the action was a friend, a refugee, or a stranger. We looked at these ratings across various moral foundations, and conducted the study in Brazil, US, and UK samples. Our most robust and consistent findings are that purity violations were judged more harshly when committed by ingroup members and less harshly when committed by the refugees in comparison to the unspecified agents, the difference between refugee and unspecified agents decays from liberals to conservatives, i.e., conservatives judge them more harshly than liberals do, and Brazilians participants are harsher than the US and UK participants. Our results suggest that purity violations are judged differently according to who committed them and according to the political ideology of the judges. We discuss the findings in light of various theories of groups dynamics, such as moral hypocrisy, moral disengagement, and the black sheep effect.KEYWORDS: Moral foundations theoryblack sheep effectmoral hypocrisymoral judgmentrefugeesingroupoutgroup Disclosure statementThere were no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with a direct financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. All authors contributed to manuscript writing and approved the final version of the manuscript for submission.Open practices statementData, materials, and analysis codes can be found in the OSF website via the following link: https://osf.io/ge2mk/?view_only=82e54b480c5e40a38cd5530ab7032c77Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2278637Additional informationFundingThis research was supported by CAPES - PRINT (Programa Institucional de Internacionalização; Grant # 88887.310255/2018-00), CAPESP – PROEX (Grant 3 04236/2021), CNPq - INCT (National Institute of Science and Technology on Social and Affective Neuroscience, grant #. 406463/2022-0). PSB is supported by a CNPq researcher fellowship (309905/2019-2). GVB was supported by a scientific initiation grant: nº 2017/11131-0, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). GGR was supported by a postdoc grant: nº 2019/26665-5 (FAPESP). WSA was supported by John Templeton Foundation grant 62280. JACE was supported by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2021-095).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2279244
Marie van Loon
ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that a prominent account of doxastic responsibility, Epistemic Reasons-Responsiveness can be amended to avoid two problems with its treatment of delusions. I do so by appealing to Carolina Flores’ recent work on the evidence-responsiveness of delusions: by excluding what Flores calls masking factors from the mechanism of reasons-responsiveness, we are able to accommodate the possibility for individuals with delusions to be responsible for their belief. I conclude by motivating that this possibility is one we should care about.KEYWORDS: Delusionsdoxastic responsibilityreasons-responsivenessirrationality AcknowledgementsI am indebted to two anonymous referees for their invaluable comments and challenges on two previous versions of this paper. My thanks also to Miriam Schleifer McCormick for reading and sharing her insights on an early draft. I am thankful to audiences at The Value of Irrationality workshop (University of Zurich), the Responsibility, Psychopathology & Stigma conference (University of Antwerp), and the DGPhil 7th Graduate Conference (University of Erlangen) for their feedback on earlier version of this work.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. For the sake of this discussion, I take delusions to be beliefs, following Bortolotti (Citation2012) and Bayne and Pacherie (Citation2005). This view about the nature of delusions is of course debated. This assumption is justified insofar the discussion at hand is only relevant under this assumption, reasons-responsiveness being a property of beliefs and not of acceptances (Dub, Citation2017; Frankish, Citation2009, Citation2012), imaginings (Currie & Ravenscroft, Citation2002), or other entities delusions are sometimes thought to be.2. Against this classic tenet of contemporary epistemology, some philosophers defend a voluntarist position (Peels, Citation2015; Steup, Citation2017).3. McHugh (Citation2017), p. 27514. McHugh (Citation2017), p. 27515. McHugh, following Schleifer McCormick (Citation2011; Schleifer McCormick, Citation2014), Steup (Citation2008) and the original instigators of the Reasons-Responsiveness view, Fischer and Ravizza (Citation1998).6. I suspect that this worry touches on the very much debated question of epistemic agency. Briefly put, the question, “is there genuine epistemic agency?” or put differently, “do we believe for reasons in the same way we act and decide for reasons?” is a dividing and multifaceted one. Engaging with this question is beyond both the scope and the relevance of the present work. Therefore, I prefer not to stir up the hornet’s nest. Let me simply stress that this paper assumes with other scholars working on doxastic responsibility that there is epistemic agency.7. The individuation of mechanism raises, (in)famously, some thorny questions (Ginet, Citation2006; McKenna, Citation2013). They strongly parallel questions involved in what is known in epistemology as the pro
在本文中,我认为,一个著名的关于幻觉责任的解释,认识的原因-反应性可以修改,以避免两个问题,其治疗妄想。为此,我引用卡罗琳娜·弗洛雷斯(Carolina Flores)最近关于妄想的证据反应性的研究成果:通过排除弗洛雷斯所说的从理性反应机制中隐藏的因素,我们能够适应妄想患者为自己的信念负责的可能性。我的结论是,这种可能性是我们应该关心的。关键字:错觉、随机责任、理性、响应性、合理性感谢两位匿名审稿人对本文前两个版本的宝贵意见和质疑。我还要感谢Miriam Schleifer McCormick阅读并分享她对初稿的见解。我感谢非理性的价值研讨会(苏黎世大学),责任,精神病理学和耻辱会议(安特卫普大学)和DGPhil第七届研究生会议(埃尔兰根大学)的观众对本工作早期版本的反馈。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。为了便于讨论,我遵循Bortolotti (Citation2012)和Bayne和Pacherie (Citation2005)的观点,将错觉视为信念。这种关于妄想本质的观点当然是有争议的。这一假设是合理的,因为目前的讨论仅在这一假设下相关,原因-响应是信念的属性,而不是接受的属性(Dub, Citation2017;Frankish, Citation2009, Citation2012),想象(Currie & Ravenscroft, Citation2002),或其他实体错觉有时被认为是。反对这一当代认识论的经典原则,一些哲学家捍卫唯意志论的立场(皮尔斯,引文2015;Steup Citation2017)。3。McHugh (Citation2017), p. 27514。McHugh (Citation2017), p. 27515。继施莱弗·麦考密克(Citation2011;Schleifer McCormick, Citation2014), Steup (Citation2008)以及原因-响应性观点的最初发起者Fischer和Ravizza (Citation1998)。我怀疑这种担忧涉及到一个非常有争议的问题,即认知代理。简单地说,这个问题是"存在真正的认知代理吗?或者换句话说,“我们的信仰是否与我们的行为和决定一样有道理?”是一个分裂和多方面的问题。研究这个问题已经超出了本研究的范围和相关性。因此,我宁愿不去捅马蜂窝。让我简单地强调一下,这篇论文与其他研究荒诞责任的学者一样,假设存在认知代理。众所周知,机制的个性化提出了一些棘手的问题(Ginet, Citation2006;麦肯纳,Citation2013)。它们与认识论中所谓的普遍性问题(Conee & Feldman, Citation1998;高盛,Citation1979)。这里的问题是:是否存在原则性的标准来界定是什么构成了一种机制(信念形成)而不是另一种机制?同样的问题也适用于Fischer和Ravizza在其观点的原始陈述中讨论的理性响应行为(Fischer & Ravizza, Citation1998, p. 39)。因此,这个问题并不是我对妄想的讨论所特有的,而是伦理学和认识论中理性-责任反应观的捍卫者以及认识论中的可靠主义者所面临的普遍问题。见《弗洛雷斯》(Citation2021),第6312页。Flores讨论了McKay & Cipolotti (Citation2007)调查的一个案例研究。“我的感觉都不一样了……有一种收缩的感觉,没有真正体现我的身体,触摸的感觉和在外面的感觉……也许通常你会感到脸颊上有一点风……但所有这些感觉都不一样。”我想说的是,唯一接近它的经历就是真正的时差——整晚都没睡,然后你起床了,你的脑袋就像海绵一样。”McHugh (Citation2017), p. 275111。McHugh (Citation2017), p. 275112。值得注意的是,文森特的描述针对的是道德责任而不是道德责任。例如(我强调)。“狗和猫、小孩、疯子和严重智障的成年人都有潜在的有效意志,但我们却不认为他们是负责任的人”(Wolf, Citation1990, p. 7)。“这里有更系统和持久的状态,使一个人的正常状态成为一种不公平的状态,在这种状态下,让一个人在道德上负责是不公平的;这里可能包括,例如,精神错乱或精神疾病,极端青年,精神病和系统行为控制或条件作用的影响”(Wallace, Citation1994,第155页)。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2276307
Will Fraker
ABSTRACTGenerics about social kinds (or GSKs) frequently propagate descriptions that carry normative force (e.g., “women are emotional”). Some philosophers of language attribute this to GSKs’ tendency to transmit essentialist beliefs about social kinds. According to these accounts, utterances of GSKs implicate that there is something in the nature of social kinds that causes them to possess the properties described, and that individual members of these social kinds therefore ought to exhibit (or be expected to exhibit) these properties. Here, I draw on empirical evidence to suggest an alternative account. According to my framework, an utterance of a GSK implicates a distinction between the social kind described and its salient conceptual opposite, producing what I call a dichotomizing perspective. For example, “women are emotional” suggests that men are not. Importantly, such distinctions frequently persist in the societal common ground as a function of social power, in part due to their alignment with hierarchical social structures between dichotomized social kinds. This enables such GSKs to perpetuate biased patterns of attention, expectation, and behavior even in the absence of essentialist belief.KEYWORDS: Genericssocial kindspragmaticspsychological essentialismdichotomizing perspectivesocial structure AcknowledgementsThank you to Dan Weiskopf for the sustained support, insightful conversation, and many rounds of patient, thoughtful feedback. Thank you to Christie Hartley and Andrea Scarantino for the helpful comments and conversations about earlier drafts of the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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