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The difference between street parking and slavery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2026

P. Kyle Stanford Open the ORCID record for P. Kyle Stanford [Opens in a new window]  and
Michael J. Poulin
P. Kyle Stanford*
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Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA stanford@uci.edu;
Michael J. Poulin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA mjpoulin@buffalo.edustanford@uci.edu https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/pkylestanford/www.scopelabbuffalo.com
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Abstract

The authors neglect the most distinctive and puzzling features of human moral experience and thus fail to offer a theory of moral cognition at all. Humans experience moral norms and obligations as externally imposed on us in ways we are not free to modify, invent, or ignore, in sharp contrast to the motivations and outcomes of bargaining or prior agreements.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e155
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press

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