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- Abstract
- Philosophy and the Worship of Reason
- Psychology and the Focus on Reasoning
- Kohlberg and the Cognitive Revolution
- After Kohlberg
- Questioning the Causality of Reasoning
- The Social Intuitionist Model
- Moral Judgment
- Moral Reasoning
- Moral Intuition
- The Links in the Model
- 1. The intuitive judgment link
- 2. The post hoc reasoning link
- 3. The reasoned persuasion link
- 4. The social persuasion link
- 5. The reasoned judgment link
- 6. The private reflection link
- Four Reasons to Doubt the Causal Importance of Reason
- 1. The Dual Process Problem: There Is a Ubiquitous and Under-Studied Intuitive Process at Work
- Automatic evaluation
- Automatic moral judgment
- The social intuitionist solution
- 2. The Motivated Reasoning Problem: The Reasoning Process Is More Like a Lawyer Defending a Client Than a Judge or Scientist Seeking Truth
- Relatedness motives
- Coherence motives
- Mechanisms of bias
- The social intuitionist solution
- 3. The Post Hoc Problem: The Reasoning Process Readily Constructs Justifications of Intuitive Judgments, Causing the Illusion of Objective Reasoning
- Post hoc moral reasoning
- The illusions of moral judgment
- The social intuitionist solution
- 4. The Action Problem: Moral Action Covaries With Moral Emotion More Than With Moral Reasoning
- The weak link between moral reasoning and moral action
- The strong link between moral emotions and moral action
- Emotions lead to altruism
- The social intuitionist solution
- The Mechanism of Intuition
- Gut Feelings in the Mind
- Metaphor and Embodiment
- The Origin of Intuitions
- Primate Protomorality
- The Externalization of Intuitions
- The Development of Intuitions
- The Selective Loss of Intuitions
- Immersion in Custom Complexes
- Peer Socialization
- Integrating Rationalism and Intuitionism
- Testing the Social Intuitionist Model
- Conclusion
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Abstract
Research on moral judgment has been dominated by rationalist models, in which moral judgment is thought to be caused by moral reasoning. The author gives 4 reasons for considering the hypothesis that moral reasoning does not cause moral judgment; rather, moral reasoning is usually a post hoc construction, generated after a judgment has been reached. The social intuitionist model is presented as an alternative to rationalist models. The model is a social model in that it deemphasizes the private reasoning done by individuals and emphasizes instead the importance of social and cultural influences. The model is an intuitionist model in that...