Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The interpretation of experimental data in neuroscientific research concerning moral deci-sions is controversial. One of the leading experimenters in the field, Joshua Greene, holds that the data show that deontological theories of morality are the expression of a confabu-lation which tries to give a rational justification for emotional responses. His arguments are criticized on the basis of a different interpretation of deontology. On the other hand, Marc Hauser, John Mikhail and others have proposed a research project in moral psychology called Universal Moral Grammar. This perspective is more promising as far as the norma-tive dimension of moral judgment is concerned. Yet, it is suggested that rather than look-ing for the universal moral principles we should look for the (univerdsal) formal principles of morality, in a more thoroughly Kantian perspective.
Author: Roberto Mordacci
Institution: Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1524444729