How Moral Foundations Theory Succeeded in Building on Sand: A Response to Suhler and Churchland
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Suppose you are an architect and you have recently completed a challenging project: designing and building a sturdy modern house on a sandy stretch of ground where several previous architects had failed. The shifting ground had cracked their one-piece rigid concrete foundations. You vowed not to repeat their mistakes, so you designed a novel foundational system that avoided the use of concrete altogether. You drove steel rods down into rockier soil, created five independent platforms to support five modular units, and then linked the units together with short flexible corridors. You left plenty of room for expansion—the modular design makes it easy for the homeowner to add additional units as needed. The initial reviews of your modular house are excellent, and other architects begin applying your technique, with good results. Imagine your trepidation, then, when a major architectural critic writes a review entitled “A foundation built on sand?”, in which she warns that your house will soon collapse and that your project is useful primarily as an object lesson in what not to do. You begin reading the review. It starts off with an extremely accurate summary of the design challenges you faced and of the innovative ways that you met those challenges. It praises you for having solved four of the major problems that doomed previous attempts to build on this sandy ground. (You are grateful for this praise.) So imagine your confusion as you continue to read and discover that your criticʼs three major complaints are as follows:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Cognitive Neuroscience
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011