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Person as moral scientist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Nicholas Humphrey
Nicholas Humphrey
Affiliation:
London School of Economics(Emeritus Professor). Home address: 18 Bateman Street, Cambridge CB2 1NB, United Kingdom. humphrey@me.comwww.humphrey.org.uk
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Abstract

Scientists are generally more moral, and moralists more scientific, than Knobe suggests. His own experiments show that people, rather than making unscientific judgements about the moral intentions of others, are behaving as good Bayesians who take account of prior knowledge.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 340
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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