Heinrich Sauer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 837864 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heinrich Sauer |
| PRENOMES | Heinrich |
| SOBRENOME | Sauer |
| ASSINATURA | SAUER H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8039-0376 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1959 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The ends of history
The end of history
What credence should we assign to philosophical claims that were formed without any knowledge of the current state of the art of the philosophical debate and little or no knowledge of the relevant empirical or scientific data? Very little or none. Yet when we engage with the history of philosophy, this is often exactly what we do. In this paper, I argue that studying the history of philosophy is philosophically unhelpful. The epistemic aims of ph…
Trust the Process
How should be think about moral progress? In her book Progress and Regression , Rahel Jaeggi answers this question from the perspective of critical social theory. She claims that, if we want to avoid falling into the familiar traps of colonial and/or imperialist thinking, theorizing about moral progress requires that we proceed proceduralistically and negativistically: instead of identifying positive instances of substantive moral improvement, we…
Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress
Many believe that moral education can cause moral progress. At first glance, this makes sense. A major goal of moral education is the improvement of the moral beliefs, values and behaviors of young people. Most would also consider all of these improvements to be important instances of moral progress. Moreover, moral education is a form of social learning, and there are good reasons to think that social learning processes shape episodes of progres…
Promoting inequality? Self-monitoring applications and the problem of social justice
Against moral judgment. The empirical case for moral abolitionism
In this paper, I argue that recent evidence regarding the psychological basis of moral cognition supports a form of (moderate) moral abolitionism. I identify three main problems undermining the epistemic quality of our moral judgments – contamination, reliability, and bad incentives – and reject three possible responses: neither moral expertise, nor moral learning, nor the possibility of moral progress succeed in solving the aforementioned episte…
Moral Judgement and Moral Progress
We propose a fundamental challenge to the feasibility of moral progress: most extant theories of progress, we will argue, assume an unrealistic level of cognitive control people must have over their moral judgments for moral progress to occur. Moral progress depends at least in part on the possibility of individual people improving their moral cognition to eliminate the pernicious influence of various epistemically defective biases and other dist…
Moral progress
Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot-binding have been abolished, democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in some countries, and the animal rights movement continues to gain momentum. Do these changes count as moral progress? Is there such a thing? If so, how should we understand it? These questions have been receiving increasing attention from philosophers, psychologists, biologists, and s…
The mark of the moral
In light of recent empirical data, many psychologists and philosophers have turned away from rationalism about moral judgment and embraced sentimentalism. In the process, they have rejected the classical “moral signature” as a way of distinguishing moral from conventional norms in favor of a sentimentalist approach to carving out the moral domain. In this paper, we argue that this sentimentalist turn has been made prematurely. Although we agree t…
Debunking Arguments in Ethics
The Wrong Kind of Mistake
Social Intuitionism and the Psychology of Moral Reasoning
Rationalism about the psychology of moral judgment holds, among other things, that the justifying moral reasons we have for our judgments are also the causally effective reasons for why we make those judgments. This can be called the 'effectiveness'-thesis regarding moral reasoning. The theory that best exemplifies the thesis is the traditional conscious reasoning-paradigm. Current empirical moral psychology, however, poses a serious challenge to…
On the Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory
The present review discusses validity aspects of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) on the basis of meta-analyses of studies on the psychometric properties. Shortcomings of the BDI are its high item difficulty, lack of representative norms, and thus doubtful objectivity of interpretation, controversial factorial validity, instability of scores over short time intervals (over the course of 1 day), and poor discriminant validity against anxiety. A…
Die Sozialisierung des Bauerntums in Jugoslawien
u e r ist n ic h t m e h r B a u e r im h e r k m m lic h e n S in n e , so n d e rn ein e, in d a s K o lle k tiv e in g e sp a n n te , Arbeitskraft m it e in e m n u r in d ire k te n , u n p e rs n lich e n u n d n u r w irtsc h a ftlic h en V e r h ltn is z u m B o d en , o h n e fre ie L sb a rk e it d e s A r b e itsv e rh ltn isses. E r k a n n sich a llerd in g s a ls M it e ig e n t m e r u n d M itb e stim m e r f h le n , d o ch n u r…
Moral progress
Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot-binding have been abolished, democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in some countries, and the animal rights movement continues to gain momentum. Do these changes count as moral progress? Is there such a thing? If so, how should we understand it? These questions have been receiving increasing attention from philosophers, psychologists, biologists, and s…
Social Intuitionism and the Psychology of Moral Reasoning
Rationalism about the psychology of moral judgment holds, among other things, that the justifying moral reasons we have for our judgments are also the causally effective reasons for why we make those judgments. This can be called the 'effectiveness'-thesis regarding moral reasoning. The theory that best exemplifies the thesis is the traditional conscious reasoning-paradigm. Current empirical moral psychology, however, poses a serious challenge to…
Die Sozialisierung des Bauerntums in Jugoslawien
u e r ist n ic h t m e h r B a u e r im h e r k m m lic h e n S in n e , so n d e rn ein e, in d a s K o lle k tiv e in g e sp a n n te , Arbeitskraft m it e in e m n u r in d ire k te n , u n p e rs n lich e n u n d n u r w irtsc h a ftlic h en V e r h ltn is z u m B o d en , o h n e fre ie L sb a rk e it d e s A r b e itsv e rh ltn isses. E r k a n n sich a llerd in g s a ls M it e ig e n t m e r u n d M itb e stim m e r f h le n , d o ch n u r…
On the Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory
The present review discusses validity aspects of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) on the basis of meta-analyses of studies on the psychometric properties. Shortcomings of the BDI are its high item difficulty, lack of representative norms, and thus doubtful objectivity of interpretation, controversial factorial validity, instability of scores over short time intervals (over the course of 1 day), and poor discriminant validity against anxiety. A…
Social Intuitionism and the Psychology of Moral Reasoning
Rationalism about the psychology of moral judgment holds, among other things, that the justifying moral reasons we have for our judgments are also the causally effective reasons for why we make those judgments. This can be called the 'effectiveness'-thesis regarding moral reasoning. The theory that best exemplifies the thesis is the traditional conscious reasoning-paradigm. Current empirical moral psychology, however, poses a serious challenge to…
The Wrong Kind of Mistake
Debunking Arguments in Ethics
The mark of the moral
In light of recent empirical data, many psychologists and philosophers have turned away from rationalism about moral judgment and embraced sentimentalism. In the process, they have rejected the classical “moral signature” as a way of distinguishing moral from conventional norms in favor of a sentimentalist approach to carving out the moral domain. In this paper, we argue that this sentimentalist turn has been made prematurely. Although we agree t…
Against moral judgment. The empirical case for moral abolitionism
In this paper, I argue that recent evidence regarding the psychological basis of moral cognition supports a form of (moderate) moral abolitionism. I identify three main problems undermining the epistemic quality of our moral judgments – contamination, reliability, and bad incentives – and reject three possible responses: neither moral expertise, nor moral learning, nor the possibility of moral progress succeed in solving the aforementioned episte…
Moral Judgement and Moral Progress
We propose a fundamental challenge to the feasibility of moral progress: most extant theories of progress, we will argue, assume an unrealistic level of cognitive control people must have over their moral judgments for moral progress to occur. Moral progress depends at least in part on the possibility of individual people improving their moral cognition to eliminate the pernicious influence of various epistemically defective biases and other dist…
Moral progress
Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot-binding have been abolished, democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in some countries, and the animal rights movement continues to gain momentum. Do these changes count as moral progress? Is there such a thing? If so, how should we understand it? These questions have been receiving increasing attention from philosophers, psychologists, biologists, and s…
Promoting inequality? Self-monitoring applications and the problem of social justice
Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress
Many believe that moral education can cause moral progress. At first glance, this makes sense. A major goal of moral education is the improvement of the moral beliefs, values and behaviors of young people. Most would also consider all of these improvements to be important instances of moral progress. Moreover, moral education is a form of social learning, and there are good reasons to think that social learning processes shape episodes of progres…
The end of history
What credence should we assign to philosophical claims that were formed without any knowledge of the current state of the art of the philosophical debate and little or no knowledge of the relevant empirical or scientific data? Very little or none. Yet when we engage with the history of philosophy, this is often exactly what we do. In this paper, I argue that studying the history of philosophy is philosophically unhelpful. The epistemic aims of ph…
Trust the Process
How should be think about moral progress? In her book Progress and Regression , Rahel Jaeggi answers this question from the perspective of critical social theory. She claims that, if we want to avoid falling into the familiar traps of colonial and/or imperialist thinking, theorizing about moral progress requires that we proceed proceduralistically and negativistically: instead of identifying positive instances of substantive moral improvement, we…
The ends of history
Epistemology (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Moral disengagement (6 obras) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (5 obras) · Ethics in Business and Education (5 obras)