Elaborating Expressivism: Moral judgments, Desires and Motivation

Eriksson, John

doi:10.1007/s10677-013-9434-3

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“…However, probes of vmPFC patients' explicit attitudes about abstract, hypothetical choice scenarios have found considerable overlap with healthy controls (leland & Grafman 2005). Additionally, vmPFC patients are often indistinguishable from healthy subjects in a range of measures of intelligence and general cognitive ability, suggesting that declarative memory and working memory are preserved (Damasio 1994). The problem with vmPFC patients, it seems, is not that they are unable to emote and perform motivated actions, nor that they are unable to explicitly reason about practical matters, but rather that these two aspects of their psychology cannot interact fluidly.…”

Section: Extending the Account To Normative Judgmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitivism, Motivation, and Dual-Process Approaches to Normative Judgment

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2017

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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A central source of support for expressivist accounts of normative discourse is the intimate relationship between normative judgment and motivation. expressivists argue that normative judgments must be noncognitive, desire-like states in order to be so tightly linked with motivation. Normative statements are then construed as expressions of these noncognitive states. in this paper, i draw on dual-process models in cognitive psychology to respond to this argument. According to my proposal, normative judgments are ordinary beliefs that are typically produced by two kinds of process: intuitive-affective processes and domain-general reasoning. When produced by the first kind of process, motivation and judgment tend to align. When produced by the second kind, motivation and judgment might not align. Since the first kind of process is the most common pathway of normative belief formation, normative judgments are typically accompanied by aligning motivation. This proposal enables cognitivists to explain the intimate link between normative judgment and motivation, thereby removing the major obstacle to interpreting normative statements truth-conditionally.

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Section: Extending the Account To Normative Judgmentmentioning

confidence: 99%