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39 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 30 June 2012 06:01AM

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Comment author: JenniferRM 28 June 2012 09:26:10PM *  0 points [-]

Potential questions this essay could have been written to answer, that might deserve to be dissolved rather than answered directly:

  • How does moral reasoning work (and what are the implications)?

  • How do moral debates find ground in moral feelings (and what are the implications)?

  • Where does the motivational force attributed to pro-social intrinsic values come from (and what are the implications)?

Comment author: [deleted] 28 June 2012 11:33:27PM *  4 points [-]

I'm currently reading a book called Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality that frames the problem exactly like that. It's by Patricia Churchland. The view that she defends is that moral decision are based on constraint satisfaction, just like a lot of other decisions processes.