1st Edition

Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow

By Hanno Sauer Copyright 2019
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

In recent research, dual-process theories of cognition have been the primary model for explaining moral judgment and reasoning. These theories understand moral thinking in terms of two separate domains: one deliberate and analytic, the other quick and instinctive. This book presents a new theory of the philosophy and cognitive science of moral judgment. Hanno Sauer develops and defends... Read more

Introduction  1. Dual Process Theory  2. From Dual to Triple Process Theory  3. A Triple Process Theory of Moral Cognition.  Index

Biography

Hanno Sauer is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and a member of the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions (2017) and Debunking Arguments in Ethics (2018).

"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - S. A. Mason, CHOICE