You Disgust Me. Or Do You? On the Very Idea of Moral Disgust

Fileva, Iskra

doi:10.1080/00048402.2020.1717560

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“…While these explanations are surely correct in some cases, they do not explain all of the relevant evidence. Moral violations have been shown to activate the same neural substrates as other disgusting things (e.g., Sanfey et al 2003) and to give rise to all of the main functional outputs of disgust, including the 'gape' expression (Chapman et al 2009), feelings of disgust (Fileva 2020), and representations of contamination (e.g., Tapp & Occhipinti 2016). cally modified "Beltsville pigs" who had deformed heads (see also, e.g., Burke 1759Burke /1990Bosanquet 1889: 45;Paris 2017: 141;Rosenkranz 1853Rosenkranz /2015Bayley 2012: e.g., 86, 135, 206;Eco 2007: e.g., 49, 51;Lessing 1766Lessing /1905Henderson 2015a: e.g., 49-50, 75, 99-104;Aikin & Jones 2015: 214-15;Felisberti 2021;and Garvin 1948: 405).…”

Section: The Ostensions Of the Ugly And The Disgust-elicitingmentioning

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Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder

Doran

2022

Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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I offer the first sustained defence of the claim that ugliness is constituted by the disposition to disgust. I advance three main lines of argument in support of this thesis. First, ugliness and disgustingness tend to lie in the same kinds of things and properties (the argument from ostensions). Second, the thesis is better placed than all existing accounts to accommodate the following facts: ugliness is narrowly and systematically distributed in a heterogenous set of things, ugliness is sometimes enjoyed, and ugliness sits opposed to beauty across a neutral midpoint (the argument from proposed intensions). And third, ugliness and disgustingness function in the same way in both giving rise to representations of contamination (the argument from the law of contagion). In making these arguments, I show why prominent objections to the thesis do not succeed, cast light on some of the artistic functions of ugliness, and, in addition, demonstrate why a dispositional account of disgustingness is correct, and present a novel problem for warrant-based accounts of disgustingness (the ‘too many reasons’ problem).

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Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder

Doran

2022

Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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“…For instance, Gert (2015) challenges the claims of Haidt and others (e.g., Kelly, 2011) that moral disgust is genuine disgust. See Fileva (2020) for a rejoinder to these criticisms. Fortunately, our proposal sidesteps these debates because it operates on the modest assumption that the language of disgust, rather than the actual emotional response, is applied to behaviors, individuals, and social groups.…”

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Disgust and the logic of contamination: Biology, culture, and the evolution of norm (over)compliance

Wiegman

Fischer

2021

Mind & Language

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Many people feel compelled to disassociate themselves from wrongdoing. We call judgments to the effect “disassociation intuitions.” Do disassociation intuitions have a common cause? Why do they seem so obvious and resistant to countervailing reasons? How did they become so widespread? Here, we argue that disassociation intuitions are a natural product of gene‐culture co‐evolution. We also consider the mechanism that gene‐culture co‐evolution employed to achieve this result, arguing that a plausible candidate is disgust and its cultural echoes. This theory of disassociation intuitions suggests a promising research program in the philosophy of psychology, which provides new ways of thinking about higher cognitive emotions, and biologically constrained cognitive capacities generally.

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Disgust: Moral

Mercutio

2024

Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior

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You Disgust Me. Or Do You? On the Very Idea of Moral Disgust

Cited by 7 publications

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Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder

Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder

Disgust and the logic of contamination: Biology, culture, and the evolution of norm (over)compliance

Disgust: Moral

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