| Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment Contributor(s): Mikhail, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511780575 ISBN-13: 9780511780578 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Ethics & Professional Responsibility - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 170 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
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| Publisher Description: Is the science of moral cognition usefully modeled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate moral grammar that causes them to analyze human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as they analyze 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 judgment. The book will be of interest to philosophers, cognitive scientists, legal scholars, and other researchers in the interdisciplinary field of moral psychology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mikhail, John: - John Mikhail is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. |