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Elements of Moral Cognition : Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and ...

ISBN: 9780521855785 | 0521855780
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 6/13/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The book's main purpose is to explore whether the science of moral cognition is usefully modeled on aspects of Noam Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar. Just as Chomsky argued that human beings are born with innate knowledge of grammar, so Mikhail suggests that humans might possess innate moral knowledge, and he shows how this question can be usefully investigated.
Is the science of moral cognition usefully modeled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes t... MORE
Part I. Theory: 1. The question presented; 2. A new framework for the theory of moral cognition; 3. The basic elements of Rawls' linguistic analogy; Part II. Empirical Adequacy: 4. The problem of descriptive adequacy; 5. The moral grammar hypothesis; 6. Moral grammar and intuitive jurisprudence: a formal model; Part III. Objections and Replies: 7. R.M. Hare's objections and the distinction between empirical and normative adequacy; 8. Thomas Nagel's objections and the competence-performance distinction; 9. Ronald Dworkin's objections and the dis... MORE
John Mikhail is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University.


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