Contractualism holds that an act is morally permissible if all the parties relevantly affected by the act could reasonably agree to it (or at least not reasonably reject it). Put simply, it revolves around a kind of idealized bargaining.
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As a family of moral theories, contractualism holds that morality is primarily about acting according to what would be agreed by rational agents.
Descriptive models of moral judgment and decision making often appeal to two normative ethical theories: consequentialism and deontology.
The Cognitive Mechanisms of Contractualist Moral Decision-Making. S Levine, M Kleiman-Weiner, N Chater, F Cushman, J Tenenbaum. CogSci, 2018. 12, 2018. When ...
The Cognitive Mechanisms of Contractualist Moral Decision-Making. Accepted into Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Universalization fits into an agreement-based (contractualist) theory of moral cognition, and explains proper- ties of our moral judgments that outcome-based ...
Dec 12, 2017 · Cognitive neuroscience investigations have begun to reveal the distributed neural networks which interact to implement moral judgment and social decision- ...
While the influence of psychological mechanisms on moral judgments is significant, moral philosophers suspect that many of these mechanisms are self-serving.
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In this paper, we argue that we sometimes use contractualist (agreement-based) mechanisms to determine when a rule can be broken.
We present a novel theory of moral cognition organized around resource-rational contractualism. From a contractualist perspective, ideal moral judgments are.