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Moral reasoning performance determines epistemic peerdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2019

William H. B. McAuliffe Open the ORCID record for William H. B. McAuliffe [Opens in a new window]  and
Michael E. McCullough Open the ORCID record for Michael E. McCullough [Opens in a new window]
William H. B. McAuliffe
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Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146. w.mcauliffe@umiami.eduhttp://williamhbmcauliffe.com/mikem@miami.eduhttp://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/
Michael E. McCullough
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Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146. w.mcauliffe@umiami.eduhttp://williamhbmcauliffe.com/mikem@miami.eduhttp://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/
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Abstract

We offer a friendly criticism of May's fantastic book on moral reasoning: It is overly charitable to the argument that moral disagreement undermines moral knowledge. To highlight the role that reasoning quality plays in moral judgments, we review literature that he did not mention showing that individual differences in intelligence and cognitive reflection explain much of moral disagreement. The burden is on skeptics of moral knowledge to show that moral disagreement arises from non-rational origins.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e161
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