Person as moralist and scientist

Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo , Anouk Barberousse (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

Scientific inquiry possibly shares with people's ordinary understanding the same evolutionary determinants, and affect-laden intuitions that shape moral judgments also play a decisive role in decision-making, planning, and scientific reasoning. Therefore, if ordinary understanding does differ from scientific inquiry, the reason does not reside in the fact that the former (but not the latter) is endowed with moral considerations.

Mots clés: Causal cognition; moral cognition; theory of mind

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo, Anouk Barberousse. Person as moralist and scientist: Open Peer Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010, 33 (4), pp.331-331. ⟨10.1017/S0140525X10001676⟩. ⟨halshs-00775578⟩