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29Implicit Cognition, Dual Process Theory, and Moral JudgmentIn J. Robert Thompson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition, Routledge. pp. 105-114. 2023.Implicit cognition is cognition that happens automatically and (typically) non-consciously. In moral psychology, implicit cognition is almost always understood in terms of dual process models of moral judgment. In this chapter, we address the question whether implicit moral judgment is usefully cashed out in terms of automatic (“type 1”) processes, and what the limitations of this approach are. Our chapter has six sections. In (1), we provide a brief overview of dual process models of domain-gen…Read more
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53Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral ProgressEthical Theory and Moral Practice 27 (1): 25-40. 2024.Many believe that moral education can cause moral progress. At first glance, this makes sense. A major goal of moral education is the improvement of the moral beliefs, values and behaviors of young people. Most would also consider all of these improvements to be important instances of moral progress. Moreover, moral education is a form of social learning, and there are good reasons to think that social learning processes shape episodes of progressive moral change. Despite this, we argue that ins…Read more
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40How Stable are Moral Judgments?Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (4): 1377-1403. 2023.Psychologists and philosophers often work hand in hand to investigate many aspects of moral cognition. In this paper, we want to highlight one aspect that to date has been relatively neglected: the stability of moral judgment over time. After explaining why philosophers and psychologists should consider stability and then surveying previous research, we will present the results of an original three-wave longitudinal study. We asked participants to make judgments about the same acts in a series o…Read more
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21Freedom from what? Separating lay concepts of freedomConsciousness and Cognition 101 103318. 2022.
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82Moral framing effects within subjectsPhilosophical Psychology 34 (5): 611-636. 2021.Several philosophers and psychologists have argued that evidence of moral framing effects shows that many of our moral judgments are unreliable. However, all previous empirical work on moral framing effects has used between-subject experimental designs. We argue that between-subject designs alone do not allow us to accurately estimate the extent of moral framing effects or to properly evaluate the case from framing effects against the reliability of our moral judgments. To do better, we report r…Read more
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215Moral progress: Recent developmentsPhilosophy Compass 16 (10). 2021.Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot-binding have been abolished, democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in some countries, and the animal rights movement continues to gain momentum. Do these changes count as moral progress? Is there such a thing? If so, how should we understand it? These questions have been receiving increasing attention from philosophers, psychologists, biologists, and sociologists in recent decades. This survey provide…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Experimental Philosophy |
Meta-Ethics |