Moral Judgments As Educated Intuitions: a Rationalist Theory of Moral Judgment

An argument that moral reasoning plays a crucial role in moral judgment through episodes of rational reflection that have established patterns for automatic judgment foundation.;Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Fork; 2 What's Reason Got to Do with It?; 3 Two Challenges; 4 Feeling and Thinking: A (Very) Brief History of Recent Moral Psychology; 5 Educated Intuitions: An Overview; 6 What Is This Thing Called Morality?; I The Anti-Rationalist Challenge; 1 The Effectiveness of Moral Reasoning; Introduction; 1 The Effectiveness Thesis; 2 The Conscious-Reasoning Paradigm; 3 Running Out of Reasons; 4 The No Reasons Interpretation; 5 Moral Reasoning as Confabulation; 6 Moral Reasoning from an Intuitionist Perspective; 7 Placebic Reasons