Sytsma, Justin and Machery, Edouard (2012) The Two Sources of Moral Standing. [Preprint]

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There are two primary traditions in philosophical theorizing about moral standing—one emphasizing Experience (the capacity to feel pain and pleasure) and one emphasizing Agency (complexity of cognition and lifestyle). In this article we offer an explanation for this divide: Lay judgments about moral standing depend importantly on two independent cues (Experience and Agency), and the two philosophical traditions reflect this aspect of folk moral cognition. In support of this two-source hypothesis, we present the results of a series of new experiments providing evidence for our account of lay judgments about moral standing, and argue that these results lend plausibility to the proposed causal link between folk moral cognition and the philosophical traditions.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Sytsma, Justin Machery, Edouard
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Depositing User:	Justin Sytsma
Date Deposited:	31 May 2012 13:44
Last Modified:	31 May 2012 13:44
Item ID:	9130
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Date:	May 2012
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9130

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