Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment
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Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment
Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment

Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment

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John Mikhail (Author)  

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Is the science of moral cognition usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes them to analyse human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as they analyse human speech in terms of its grammatical structure? Questions like these have been at the forefront of moral psychology ever since John Mikhail revived them in his influential work on the linguistic analogy and its implications for jurisprudence and moral theory. In this seminal book, Mikhail offers a careful and sustained analysis of the moral grammar hypothesis, showing how some of John Rawls' original ideas about the linguistic analogy, together with famous thought experiments like the trolley problem, can be used to improve our understanding of moral and legal judgement.
John Mikhail is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
  • Contributor: John Mikhail
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781107680371
  • Number of Pages: 432
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x24mm
  • Packaged Weight: 630
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2013-09-26
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: John Mikhail is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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