NOTICE : This Doc'in Nicod will take place in the DEC meeting room.
Gina Rini (NYU PhD student with Ned Block - IJN/NASH visiting PhD student ):
Ethicist typically treat moral intuitions as the building blocks of normative theorizing, without much attention to the sources of these intuitions. I argue that this is unsatisfying practice qnd that it can be helpful to understanding moral intuition as a particular sort of interaction between conscious (personal) experience and non-conscious (sub-personal) cognition. I propose a particular model of the non-conscious process instantiating moral intuition, according to which moral intuition is a social capacity enabling a particular sort of prediction regarding other agents. This model, I claim, is responsive both to the theoretical demands of moral theory and to empirical findings in social cognition.
