Dimensions of Moral Intuitions – Metaethics, Epistemology and Moral Psychology

Brand, Cordula

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-12053-5_1

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“…2024, 14, 101 2 of 14 of a measure of propensity to employ these two styles of thinking [8][9][10]. More generally, the dual-process framework has influenced a variety of fields, such as moral psychology [11,12], social psychology [4,13], behavioral change and choice architectures [14,15], numerical cognition [16], understanding how fake news propagate [17,18], religious and paranormal beliefs [19][20][21][22], and even the scientific investigation of illusionist tricks [23]. Taking into account the variety of specific theories and terminology, as well as the different fields of investigation, in this paper, we will use the expressions fast and slow thinking to distinguish the two forms of processing [24].…”

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Dual-Process Theory of Thought and Inhibitory Control: An ALE Meta-Analysis

Gronchi,

Gavazzi,

Viggiano

et al. 2024

Brain Sciences

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The dual-process theory of thought rests on the co-existence of two different thinking modalities: a quick, automatic, and associative process opposed to a slow, thoughtful, and deliberative process. The increasing interest in determining the neural foundation of the dual-process distinction has yielded mixed results, also given the difficulty of applying the fMRI standard approach to tasks usually employed in the cognitive literature. We report an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to investigate the neural foundation of the dual-process theory of thought. Eligible studies allowed for the identification of cerebral areas associated with dual-process theory-based tasks without differentiating between fast and slow thinking. The ALE algorithm converged on the medial frontal cortex, superior frontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, insula, and left inferior frontal gyrus. These structures partially overlap with the cerebral areas recurrently reported in the literature about the neural basis of the dual-process distinction, where the PARCS theory-based interpretation emphasizes the role of the right inferior gyrus. The results confirm the potential (but still almost unexplored) common ground between the dual-process literature and the cognitive control literature.

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Dual-Process Theory of Thought and Inhibitory Control: An ALE Meta-Analysis

Gronchi,

Gavazzi,

Viggiano

et al. 2024

Brain Sciences

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MyBioethics: How Ed-Tech Enables Discovery-Driven Empirical Bioethics Research

Janhonen,

Värttö,

Saxén

2024

DISO

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Digital tools have granted new opportunities to engage people with bioethical discussion and rehearsed decision-making. The ongoing development of the MyBioethics mobile application links these together within a digital space designed to encourage deliberation and research participation by inviting users into the process of discovery. Besides educational purposes, this has enabled a unique way to gather real-world observations. A research procedure was designed to harness the functionality of a mobile application. Quantitative data was generated by dilemma scenarios and integrated surveys that measure and inform users about their psychological and epistemic tendencies. The resulting analysis enabled the possible influence of these factors on moral judgment formation to be investigated—leading to the preliminary identification of prospective relationships. The adopted methodology is crowdsourced and explorative. We seek to generate hypotheses as well as facilitate ethical reflection among users. This work is a proof-of-concept. The main finding is the tentative confirmation of the approach. A digital teaching tool can function to advance empirical bioethics research. The gathered data unveiled prospective areas of academic interest and yielded observations that may contain valuable reflective insights for individual end users. Digital bioethics brings along new opportunities to engage a diverse user base in a way that provides educational resources, challenges ethical preconceptions and intuitions, allows inclusion in research efforts, and encourages autonomous decision-making. Ed-tech applications appear suitable for investigating personal tendencies that are influencing our moral judgments. Digital environments could be designed to surface unarticulated factors behind our held positions and challenge unquestioned moral notions.

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The moral capacity as a biological adaptation: A commentary on Tomasello

Schaik

Burkart

2018

Philosophical Psychology

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Dimensions of Moral Intuitions – Metaethics, Epistemology and Moral Psychology

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Dual-Process Theory of Thought and Inhibitory Control: An ALE Meta-Analysis

Dual-Process Theory of Thought and Inhibitory Control: An ALE Meta-Analysis

MyBioethics: How Ed-Tech Enables Discovery-Driven Empirical Bioethics Research

The moral capacity as a biological adaptation: A commentary on Tomasello

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