Not as distinct as you think: Reasons to doubt that morality comprises a unified and objective conceptual category

Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan:41:e114. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18000195.

Abstract

That morality comprises a distinct and objective conceptual category is a critical claim for Stanford's target article. We dispute this claim. Statistical conclusions about a distinct moral domain were not justified in prior work, on account of the "stimuli-as-fixed-effects" fallacy. Furthermore, we have found that, behaviorally and neurally, morals share more in common with preferences than facts.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Emotions
  • Humans
  • Ice Cream*
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Morals
  • National Socialism*