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Externalization of moral demands does not motivate exclusion of non-cooperators: A defense of a subjectivist moral psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2018

Armin W. Schulz
Armin W. Schulz*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. awschulz@ku.edu http://people.ku.edu/~a382s825/
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Abstract

It is not clear how a moral demand alone can motivate an agent to exclude those who fail to act as the demand states. A more plausible hypothesis for the evolution of human moral cognition is based on seeing moral demands as subjective, but inherently conjunctive. This subjectivist-conjunctive proposal can still account for the apparent externalization of moral demands.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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