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Intuitions about moral relevance—Good news for moral intuitionism
Philosophical Psychology ( IF 1.573 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 , DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2021.1960297
Hossein Dabbagh 1
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ABSTRACT

Investigating the reliability of moral intuitions is not only one of the hot topics in moral psychology but also of high importance for philosophical questions. In a recent study, the influence of framing on people’s intuitions about the moral relevance of certain properties of moral scenarios was investigated to assess the validity of some crucial assumptions of moral intuitionism. While it was found that people’s intuitions about moral relevance were not affected by framing effects, the findings were not fully satisfying news for moral intuitionism since a worrisome proportion of participants disagreed with the purportedly self-evident moral relevance statements. In this paper, I propose a potential alternative explanation for the low agreement rate that would be less – or rather not at all – worrisome for moral intuitionism, namely that the problematic results might be due to experimental pragmatics. To test this hypothesis, I rerun two experiments with especially low agreement rates and applied some simple measures to block unintended pragmatic considerations. This resulted in significantly higher agreement rates with the purportedly self-evident moral relevance statements than in the original. Indeed, the agreement rates were at such a high level that the findings of my study provide good news for moral intuitionism.



中文翻译:

关于道德相关性的直觉——道德直觉主义的好消息

摘要

研究道德直觉的可靠性不仅是道德心理学的热点话题之一,而且对哲学问题也具有重要意义。在最近的一项研究中,研究了框架对人们关于道德情景的某些属性的道德相关性的直觉的影响,以评估道德直觉主义的一些关键假设的有效性。虽然发现人们对道德相关性的直觉不受框架效应的影响,但这些发现对于道德直觉主义来说并不完全令人满意,因为令人担忧的参与者比例不同意据称不言自明的道德相关性陈述。在这篇论文中,我对低同意率提出了一种潜在的替代解释,这对道德直觉主义来说会更少——或者根本不会——令人担忧,即有问题的结果可能是由于实验语用学。为了验证这个假设,我以特别低的一致率重新运行了两个实验,并应用了一些简单的措施来阻止意外的务实考虑。这导致据称不言而喻的道德相关性陈述的同意率明显高于原始陈述。事实上,同意率是如此之高,以至于我的研究结果为道德直觉主义提供了好消息。这导致据称不言而喻的道德相关性陈述的同意率明显高于原始陈述。事实上,同意率是如此之高,以至于我的研究结果为道德直觉主义提供了好消息。这导致据称不言而喻的道德相关性陈述的同意率明显高于原始陈述。事实上,同意率是如此之高,以至于我的研究结果为道德直觉主义提供了好消息。

更新日期:2021-09-19
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