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
Preparation
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Lecture Notes
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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.’
According to Sinnott-Armstrong et al. (2010, p. 256), moral intuitions are ‘strong, stable, immediate moral beliefs.’