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Rational Rules - Towards a Theory of Moral Learning (Hardcover)
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Rational Rules - Towards a Theory of Moral Learning (Hardcover)
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Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex
mental representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning
can be understood in terms of general-purpose rational learning
procedures. Nichols argues that statistical learning can help
answer a wide range of questions about moral thought: Why do people
think that rules apply to actions rather than consequences? Why do
people expect new rules to be focused on actions rather than
consequences? How do people come to believe a principle of liberty,
according to which whatever is not expressly prohibited is
permitted? How do people decide that some normative claims hold
universally while others hold only relative to some group? The
resulting account has both empiricist and rationalist features:
since the learning procedures are domain-general, the result is an
empiricist theory of a key part of moral development, and since the
learning procedures are forms of rational inference, the account
entails that crucial parts of our moral system enjoy rational
credentials. Moral rules can also be rational in the sense that
they can be effective for achieving our ends, given our ecological
settings. Rational Rules argues that at least some central
components of our moral systems are indeed ecologically rational:
they are good at helping us attain common goals. Nichols argues
that the account might be extended to capture moral motivation as a
special case of a much more general phenomenon of normative
motivation. On this view, a basic form of rule representation
brings motivation along automatically, and so part of the
explanation for why we follow moral rules is that we are built to
follow rules quite generally.
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