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  Reasoning and Moral Decision-Making: A Critique of the Social Intuitionist Model
 
 
Title: Reasoning and Moral Decision-Making: A Critique of the Social Intuitionist Model
Author: Kasachkoff, Tziporah
Saltzstein, Herbert D.
Appeared in: International journal of developmental science
Paging: Volume 2 (2012) nr. 3 pages 287-302
Year: 2012-05-10
Contents: The Social Intuitionist Model (SIM) of moral reasoning proposed by Jon Haidt and colleagues (Haidt, 2001; Haidt & Bjorklund, 2006) is criticized on the grounds that (1) its conclusions concerning moral reasoning are unwarranted by research reporting ‘dumbfounded’ responses by subjects whose initial judgments are challenged and judgments elicited from hypnotized subjects; (2) its account of moral change in the individual ignores a crucial temporal and developmental element of that change; 3) its hypothesis that moral change is primarily non-rational ignores the many cases of rational persuasion that conduce to such change as well as the rational resolution of internal but conflicting moral intuitions within the same individual; (4) it presents no evidence for its view that the universality of certain moral attitudes and dispositions betokens a genetic foundation (forged by evolutionary processes) for those attitudes and disposition; (5) in positing moral modules as the genetic basis for moral response, it fails to distinguish between those human responses that are rightly to be characterized as ‘moral’ and those that are social but non-moral; and finally, (6) it undermines the scientific nature of its thesis by what appears to be an inuring of it against empirical disconfirmation.
Publisher: IOS Press
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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