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Rationalization, controversy, and the entanglement of moral-social cognition: A “critical pessimist” take

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2019

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Robin Zheng*
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Philosophy Department, Yale-NUS College, Singapore13853.robin.zheng@yale-nus.edu.sghttp://robin-zheng.me
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Abstract

I raise two worries about the Debunker's and Defeater Dilemmas, respectively, and I argue that moral cognition is inextricable from social cognition, which tends to rationalize deep social inequality. I thus opine that our moral-social capacities fare badly in profoundly unjust social contexts such as our own.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e167
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