Philosophy · Ethics & Moral Philosophy
A topic within Ethics & Moral Philosophy, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Joshua Greene
Argues, from patterns in brain imaging and judgement studies, that deontological moral judgements are driven by automatic emotional responses that then get dressed up afterwards as principled reasoning.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jonathan Haidt
Argues moral judgement is typically a fast, automatic intuition that reasoning then justifies after the fact, rather than reasoning being what produces the judgement in the first place.
link checked 17 Sept 2026