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  1. (1 other version)Some controversies around moral nativism.Roger V. V. Rex & Paulo C. Abrantes - 2017 - Dialogue 56 (1):21-44.
    The theory of evolution sparked a series of questions about the origins of moral judgments and the underpinning principles. In particular, it reinforced the debate about moral nativism. In this paper we scrutinize two research programs that advocate respectively the existence of an innate ability to judge morally and a predisposition to moralize behaviors with certain contents. The best-known version of moral nativism argues for the existence of a moral grammar, by analogy with the Chomskyan model of principles and parameters (...)
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  • (1 other version)Moral Nativism: Some Controversies.Roger V. V. Rex & Paulo C. Abrantes - 2017 - Dialogue 56 (1):21-44.
    This paper scrutinizes two research programs that advocate respectively for the existence of a universal moral grammar and a predisposition to moralize behaviours with certain contents. It focuses on how the arguments commonly used to ground each program fare at relevant contemporary research in cognitive science and how well they meet constructivist arguments proposed by Jesse Prinz and Kim Sterelny, among others. We argue that there is little evidence that our moral judgements follow the model of principles and parameters. At (...)
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