Rationalization, controversy, and the entanglement of moral-social cognition: A “critical pessimist” take

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42:e167 (2019)
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I raise two worries about the Debunker's and Defeater Dilemmas, respectively, and I argue that moral cognition is inextricable from social cognition, which tends to rationalize deep social inequality. I thus opine that our moral-social capacities fare badly in profoundly unjust social contexts such as our own.

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