Zusammenfassung
The long-standing rationalist tradition in moral psychology emphasizes
the role of reason in moral judgment. A more recent trend places
increased emphasis on emotion. Although both reason and emotion are
likely to play important roles in moral judgment, relatively little
is known about their neural correlates, the nature of their interaction,
and the factors that modulate their respective behavioral influences
in the context of moral judgment. In two functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) studies using moral dilemmas as probes, we apply the
methods of cognitive neuroscience to the study of moral judgment.
We argue that moral dilemmas vary systematically in the extent to
which they engage emotional processing and that these variations
in emotional engagement influence moral judgment. These results may
shed light on some puzzling patterns in moral judgment observed by
contemporary philosophers.
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