Moral Judgment and Deontology
Empirical Developments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua May (0000-0001-8604-479X, University of Alabama at Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 745-755 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12172 |
| OpenAlex | W1493544317 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 50 |
A traditional idea is that moral judgment involves more than calculating the consequences of actions; it also requires an assessment of the agent's intentions, the act's nature, and whether the agent uses another person as a means to her ends. I survey experimental developments suggesting that ordinary people often tacitly reason in terms of such deontological rules. It's now unclear whether we should posit a traditional form of the doctrine of double effect. However, further research suggests that a range of non-consequentialist factors influence moral judgment, including intentions, commissions, personal harm, and agent-centered commitments. Many, if not all, such factors appear to affect how involved the agent is in bringing about an outcome
Consequentialism · Deontological ethics · Doctrine · Economics · Epistemology · Harm · Moral dilemma · Political science · Principle of double effect · Ethics in Business and Education · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Sentimental Rules
A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications
When ignorance is no excuse
The development of intent-based moral judgment
Ethics and Intuitions
The Trolley Problem
Who Shalt Not Kill? Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity, Executive Control, and Moral Judgment
Pushing moral buttons
The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment
Universal moral grammar
The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment
Crime and punishment
The emotional dog and its rational tail
Psychosemantics
Moral Philosophy and Linguistics
The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect
The Emotional Construction of Morals
Side Constraints and the Structure of Commonsense Ethics
Unequal Vividness and Double Effect
A reanalysis of the personal/impersonal distinction in moral psychology research
Omission and commission in judgment and choice
The Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience
The Doctrine of Double Effect
What Experimental Evidence Shows Us about the Role of Emotions in Moral Judgement
The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing I
Culture and Cognition
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |