| Special Workshop Title: | Cognitive Science, Ethics and Law |
| Author: | Susan Dwyer |
| Paper Title: | Moral Innateness, Moral Difference and Moral Parameters |
| Abstract: |
There
are good reasons to believe that human beings are innately endowed with
a moral faculty, where this faculty is to be understood in terms similar
to that of the language faculty, as posited by linguists working in the
Chomskian tradition. Building
on earlier work ("Different
Selves and Moral Parameters"
(1993) and "Moral
Competence"
(1999)), I rehearse the poverty of stimulus considerations that tell in
favor of an innate moral endowment, explain how the existence of moral
parameters makes sense of observed moral differences while avoiding
relativism, and begin to develop a more detailed account of how the
moral faculty itself and an individual=s
own moral competence might work. |
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