Making Sense of Moral Perception

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Francis Hutcheson’s moral sense theory offers a satisfactory account of moral perception. I introduce Hutcheson’s work in §1 and indicate why the existence of a sixth sense is not implausible. I provide a summary of Robert Cowan and Robert Audi’s resp...

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Published in:Ethical theory and moral practice
Main Author: McGregor, Rafe 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2015]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCA Ethics
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B moral perception
B Francis Hutcheson
B Moral sense theory
B Sensory modalities
B Charles Darwin
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