Seminar 1

Question

What are moral intuitions according to Sinnott-Armstrong, Young, & Cushman (2010)? What is these authors' central claim about them? And what evidence supports this claim?

Reading

Sinnott-Armstrong et al. (2010)

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Glossary

moral intuition : According to this lecturer, a person’s intuitions are the claims they take to be true independently of whether those claims are justified inferentially. And a person’s moral intuitions are simply those of their intuitions that concern ethical matters.
According to Sinnott-Armstrong et al. (2010, p. 256), moral intuitions are ‘strong, stable, immediate moral beliefs.’

References

Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Young, L., & Cushman, F. (2010). Moral intuitions. In J. M. Doris, M. P. R. Group, & others (Eds.), The moral psychology handbook (pp. 246–272). Oxford: OUP.