Center for Behavioral Decision Research

CBDR : Seminar Series : Seminar by Joshua Knobe

Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist

	presented by Joshua Knobe (Yale (Cognitive Science))


	Thursday, September 10	link to paper
	12pm
	PH 223D	link to Speaker's Site

	Abstract:

	It has long been known that people's intuitions about causation, intention, etc. can have an impact on their moral judgments. Recent work, however, has shown that the effect can also go in the opposite direction: people's moral judgments can actually impact their intuitions about causation and intention. (So, for example, people's belief that a behavior was morally wrong can lead them to conclude that the agent must have intended it.) I present and defend a new hypothesis about the cognitive processes underlying this effect.

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